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Providence and the Raj : imperial mission and missionary imperialism
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ISBN: 0761992774 8170367360 Year: 1998 Publisher: New Delhi Thousand Oaks, Calif. London Sage Publications

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Reflections on the government of Indostan : with a short sketch of the history of Bengal from MDCCXXXVIIII to MDCCLVI : and an account of the English affairs to MDCCLVIII
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Year: 1770 Publisher: London Printed 1763, reprinted by W. Strahan for G. Kearsley

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Papers printed for the use of proprietors of the Bank of Bengal : agreeably to a resolution at their special general meeting held the 25th February, 1837 : with a preface, and copy of letter from government with a draft act of proposed new bank charter.
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Year: 1837 Publisher: Calcutta G.H. Huttmann

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Reflections on the government, &c of Indostan : with a short sketch of the history of Bengal, from the year 1739 to 1756, and an account of the English affairs to 1758
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Year: 1763 Publisher: London Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, and sold by A. Millar


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Speeches, delivered at a public meeting, for the formation of a British India Society : held in the Freemasons' Hall, Saturday, July 6th, 1839 : the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, F.R.S. in the chair.
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Year: 1839 Publisher: London Printed for the British India Society

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Rudyard Kipling : something of myself and other autobiographical writings
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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Ethical empire? : India reformism and the critique of colonial misgovernment
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ISBN: 1009321048 9781009321044 1009321064 9781009321068 9781009321082 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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A passage to India
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ISBN: 0713161078 9780713161076 Year: 1978 Volume: 6 Publisher: London : Edward Arnold,

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The richest East India merchant : the life and business of John Palmer of Calcutta 1767-1836
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ISBN: 1282150650 9786612150654 1846155894 1843833034 Year: 2007 Publisher: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,

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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.


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Händler, Forscher, Invasoren : Russland und Zentralasien 1000-1900
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ISBN: 3657792457 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paderborn, Germany : Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh,

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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.

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