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British (Nation) --- India --- Christians --- Nationalists --- Politics and government --- 20th century --- British - India. --- Christians - India.
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This study centers upon the abolitionists, Quakers, free-traders, disenchanted colonial agents, and Parsi intellectuals who participated in the British India Society, India Reform Society, and East India Association. Beginning in the 1830s, these agitators increasingly recognized that British dominion in India was exploitative and destabilizing; moreover, it had given rise to a series of prejudicial anomalies. Reformers therefore denounced the 'virtual' enslavement, infrastructural decay, violations of the law of nations, and economic impoverishment that had occurred under colonial rule, as well as the metropole's inattention to Indian affairs. By reconstructing the transregional networks that extended from Boston to Bengal and sustained these organizations, Zak Leonard analyzes India reformism from ideological and structural perspectives. In so doing, he historicizes the practice of anti-colonial critique and offers new insight into the frustrated development of a British imperial public consciousness.
Anti-imperialist movements --- East Indian diaspora. --- History --- British India Society (London, England) --- East India Association (London, England) --- East India Company. --- India --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Administration
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Race relations --- British --- Fiction --- India --- -British --- -British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Fiction. --- -Fiction --- Race relations - Fiction --- British - India - Fiction --- India - Fiction
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This biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire. John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an 'agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm went bankrupt in 1830, thousands of people, European and Indian, were ruined, triggering the worst commercial crisis in British India up to that time. This book, the first major study of a British agency house in India, presents an account of both of Palmer's business and personal life, showing how his personal relations and circumstances shaped his commercial strategies, with ultimately disastrous consequences for Anglo-Indian relations as well as his clients. ANTHONY WEBSTER is Head of Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire.
Colonial companies --- British --- Merchants --- Businesspeople --- Commercial companies --- Companies, Colonial --- Merchant companies --- Colonization --- Commerce --- Palmer, John, --- British India. --- British imperialism. --- British merchant. --- John Palmer. --- commercial firm. --- opium trade. --- plantation agriculture.
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Blick ins BuchIn den letzten Jahren ist Zentralasien als Ort weltpolitischer Ambitionen in den Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit getreten: Die ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Usbekistan, Tadschikistan und Turkmenistan sind für China Teil der »Neuen Seidenstraße«. Die Nähe zu Iran, Afghanistan und Pakistan verleiht Zentralasien auch eine geostrategische Bedeutung. Einen besonderen Anspruch auf Einfluss in der Region aber erhebt Russland, das seit rund einem Jahrtausend dort präsent ist. Rudolf A. Mark, wohl einer der besten Kenner der Geschichte Zentralasiens, legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Beziehungsgeschichte zwischen Russland und Zentralasien vor. Auf Grundlage jahrzehntelanger Archivstudien und unter Nutzung einer Fülle oftmals nur schwer zugänglicher Publikationen erschließt der Autor das Thema in seiner Vielfalt: die ersten russischen Kontakte zu den Khanaten und frühe Handelsbeziehungen, die ethnologisch-geographischen Forschungsreisen, die Bündnisse und Eroberungen im Zeichen russischer imperialistischer Bestrebungen. Zusammen mit den beiden anderen Bänden des Autors bei Schöningh (»Im Schatten des Great Game« und »Krieg an fernen Fronten«) liegt damit eine einzigartige, aus den Quellen gearbeitete Trilogie der Geschichte Russlands in Zentralasien vom Jahr 1000 bis 1920 vor.
Mittelasien --- Imperialismus --- Zivilisierungsmission --- Expansion --- Kolonialismus --- Turkestan --- Orientalismus --- Great Game --- Afghanistan --- Nomadenreiche --- Britisch-Indien --- Seidenstraße --- Inner Asia --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- British-India --- Nomad Empires --- Orientalism --- Imperial Science --- Silk Road --- Russia --- Asia, Central --- Relations --- History.
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