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The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company
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ISBN: 9781408864371 1408864371 1408864398 1408864401 1526634015 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army.0The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation, dealing in silks and spices, and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than half a century it had trained up a private security force of around 260,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's reach stretched relentlessly until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. 0'The Anarchy' tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas and answerable only to its shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.


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Ascent and decline of native and colonial trading
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ISBN: 9353280869 9353280850 9789353280857 9353280842 9353289335 9789353280840 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Delhi, India Thousand Oaks, California

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"Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities. This resulted in the decline of native cities and prosperity of colonial cities. To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities--Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast; and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations--the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history."--Provided by publisher.


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The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850 : economy, empire and business
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ISBN: 1787444929 1783273941 Year: 2019 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer

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This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal.


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The letters of Henry Martyn : East India Company chaplain
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ISBN: 178744600X 1783274476 Year: 2019 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press,

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One of the most significant British foreign missionaries of the nineteenth century, Henry Martyn (1781-1812) is a central figure in the history of the East India Company.

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Martyn, Henry, --- Mārtīn, Hinrī, --- مارتين، هنرى, --- مارٹن، هنرى --- East India Company --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Chaplains --- India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- History --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- British Occupation of India (1765-1947) --- 1765-1947 --- RELIGION / History. --- Anglo-Persian Relations. --- British Foreign Missionaries. --- Christian-Islamic Discourse. --- Church History. --- Correspondence. --- East India Company Governance. --- East India Company. --- Evangelicalism. --- Henry Martyn. --- Historical Letters. --- Historical Research. --- Missiology. --- Protestant Christianity. --- Religion. --- Religious Issues.

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