Download or read book Traders and Nabobs written by Zoë Yalland and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nabobs written by Tillman W. Nechtman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the controversy caused by 'nabobs', and the debate regarding British identity and British imperialism in the late eighteenth century.
Download or read book The Scandal of Empire written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
Download or read book The Nabobs in England written by James Mayer Holzman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The East India Company at Home 1757 1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Download or read book Kanpur Unveiled written by Dr. Preeti Trivedi and published by Bhartiya Sahitya Inc.. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the emergence of Cawnpore as an urban centre as a subjects of historical research may appear to be slightly unconventional. However as a student of history and a resident of Kanpur, I have reasons to justify it. Whatever the protagonists of small is beautiful or urbanization may say, the history of past two centuries points towards a constant growth of super cities and urban centres. These centres are seats of economic power as well as centers of natural and global power politics. It has been observed that many trends of national growth are more or less an extension of the growth of these urban centres. Thus a study of the urbanisation can give a basis for understanding the nation's growth in its true perspective and with all its ramifications. Political history at macro and micro level have been traditionally associated with policies of British government and resistance put up by Indians. Such studies do not provide a convincing account of the diverse socio-economic changes and forces governing the destiny of the people. Therefore this study focusses on the economic forces at micro level and analyses the economic and technological factors working behind them.
Download or read book The Nabobs written by Thomas George Percival Spear and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History of Modern India 1740-1975.
Download or read book Colonial Narratives Cultural Dialogues written by Jyotsna Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues demonstrates the continuing validity of the colonial paradigm as it maps the geographical, political, and imaginative space of 'India/Indies' from the seventeenth century to the present. Breaking new ground in postcolonial studies, Jyotsna Singh highlights the interconnections among early modern colonial encounters, later manifestations in the Raj and their lingering influence in the postcolonial Indian nationalist state. Singh challenges the assumption of eye-witness accounts and unmeditated experiences implcit in colonial representational practices, and often left unchallenged in the postcolonial era. Essential introductory reading for students and academics, Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues re-evaluates the following texts: * seventeenth century travel narratives about India * eighteenth century 'nabob' texts * letters of the Orientalist, Sir William Jones * reviews of Shakespearean productions in Calcutta and postcolonial Indo-Anglian novels
Download or read book Facts Relating to the Treaty of Commerce with the Nabob of Bengal from 1752 1760 written by Vansittart and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers Presented to the House of Commons Concerning the Late Nabob of the Carnatic written by East India Company and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accounts Respecting the Annual Revenues and Disbursements Trade and Sales of the East India Company for Three Years 1824 25 1825 26 1826 27 According to the Latest Advices written by East India Company and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of William Hedges Esq afterwards Sir William Hedges During His Agency in Bengal written by Sir William Hedges and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of William Hedges Esq afterwards Sir William Hedges During His Agency in Bengal as Well as on His Voyage Out and Return Overland 1681 1687 written by Sir William Hedges and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of William Hedges Esq afterwards Sir William Hedges written by Sir William Hedges and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies written by abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is a six-volume translation, published in London in 1798, of the ten-volume Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes by Guillaume-Thomas-François (1713-96), also known as Abbé Raynal. Educated by the Jesuits and ordained as a priest, Raynal left the clergy and became a journalist. He published the first edition of Histoire des deux Indes in 1770, which he expanded in editions of 1774 and 1780. Raynal was the mastermind behind this comprehensive history of European colonization, but much of the work was written by collaborators that included the French philosophes Baron d'Holbach (1723-89) and Denis Diderot (1713-84), editor of the Encyclopedie. It describes the colonies of the European powers--notably the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish, and English--in the East Indies, South America, the West Indies, and North America and concludes with a discussion of Europe and its future. Topics such as slavery, commerce, religion, and the customs and culture of indigenous peoples are discussed from the perspective of the French Enlightenment. Among the features of the English translation are seven maps, made by the London cartographer and engraver Thomas Kitchin, Jr. especially for this edition, including "one of the United States of North America, with the British, French, and Spanish dominions adjoining, according to the treaty of 1783."
Download or read book The Asiatic Annual Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Asiatic Annual Register Or A View of the History of Hindustan and of the Politics Commerce and Literature of Asia written by Lawrence Dundas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: A history of British India, monthly chronicles of Asian events, accounts, travel literature, general essays, reviews of books on Asia, political analyses, poetry, and letters from readers.
