William A. Pettigrew, Mahesh Gopalan

The East India Company, 1600-1857 (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Anglo-Indian connection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a rare overview of the East India Company's operations in England and in Asia from the early seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century from a variety of perspectives: economic, cultural, political, sociological, as well as commercial. It shows how the Company's story was shaped by cross-cultural interactions involving British and Indian peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317191964
• Artikelnr.: 49376698

Autorenporträt

William A. Pettigrew is Reader, School of History at the University of Kent, UK. He was Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2007-9). He has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and a monograph entitled Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 (2013).

Mahesh Gopalan is Assistant Professor, Department of History at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has published articles in edited volumes on the history of the Indian Ocean and on the Jesuit Missions. He was recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant in 2014 and is currently working on a monograph.

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations Acknowledgement Introduction: The Different East
India Companies and the Variety of Cross Cultural Interactions in the
Corporate Setting Part I: The Regulatory Worlds of the East India Company
1.The Failure of the Cloth Trade to Surat and the Internationalisation of
English Mercantilist Thought, 1614-1621 2. Asian influences on the
Commercial Strategies of the English East India Company 3. The East India
Company and the shift in Anglo-Indian Commercial Relations in the 1680s 4.
Indian merchants, company protection and the development of the Bombay
shipping pass regime Part II: Religion, Society, Ethnographic
Reconnaissance, and Inter Cultural Encounters 5. 'God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem'- The Religious
Governance, Religious Sufferance and the Corporate Chaplain in India
1610-1701 6. Maritime Society in an Early Modern Port City: Negotiating
family, religion and the English Company in Madras 7. Domesticity' in Early
Colonial Bengal 8. The Travellers' tales: The Travel Writings of
Itesamuddin and Abu Taleb Khan Part III: Diplomacy, Power, and the Company
State - 222 - 322 9. Jahangir's Paintings 10. The Contested State:
Political Authority and the Decentred Foundations of the Early Modern
Colonial State in Asia 11. Messing, caste, and resistance: the production
of 'jail-scapes' and penal regimes in the early 1840s 12. A Case of
Multiple Existences: The Loyal Bombay Purbaiya and his rebellious cousin in
Bengal Index