Penelope Carson

The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 291
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781843837329
• ISBN-10: 1843837323
• Artikelnr.: 34674332

Autorenporträt

Penelope Carson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A Christian Company? The East India Company, Britain and
India: 1770-1790 The 1790s: A Time of Crisis The Pillar of Fire Moves
Foreward: The Advent of British Missionaries, 1793-1806 The Wisdom of the
Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and The Pamphlet
War, 1806-1808 Troubled Years, 1807-1812 Battle Lines Drawn: Missions,
Dissent and the Establishment The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter:
The Religious Public Takes on the Company A Turbulent Frontier: The Company
and Religion, 1814-1828 A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck,
1828-1835 Between Scylla and Charibdis, 1836-1858 Conclusion and Epilogue:
Strangers in the Land