Trade and conquest : studies on the rise of British dominance in India
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Trade and conquest : studies on the rise of British dominance in India
（Collected studies series, CS409）
Variorum, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
During the 18th century, the British presence in India changed dramatically. Trading enclaves in the coast conquered major provinces and, for the first time, large sections of the Indian population came under British rule. The essays in this volume focus on the great transformation and offer interpretations of it. They explore the link between commercial expansion and military conquest, between the policies of the East India Company and the personal interests of its servants, and between the Englishmen and the Indians who did business with them or offered their services as administrators. Bengal was the first great prize of British territorial expansion, and Bengal and Calcutta featue prominently in this collection.
Table of Contents
- "Nobkissen versus Hastings"
- the personal fortune of Warren Hastings
- the personal fortune of Warren Hastings - Hastings in retirement
- the private fortune of Marian Hastings
- Indian officials under the East India Company in 18th-century Bengal
- British expansion in India in the 18th century - a historical revision
- economic and political expansion - the case of Oudh
- masters and Banians in 18th-century Calcutta
- Western arms in maritime Asia in the early phases of expansion
- 18th-century Calcutta
- the company and the coolies - labour in early Calcutta
- private British trade in the Indian Ocean before 1800
- Cornwallis Triumphant" - war in India and the British public in the late-18th century
- the whites of British India, 1780-1830 - a failed colonial Society?
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