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J.S. Mill's encounter with India
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ISBN: 0802007139 1442676353 1282003224 9786612003226 9781442676350 9780802007131 1487554923 Year: 1999 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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"John Stuart Mill worked for the East India Company in London for thirty-five years (1823-58), drafting many hundreds of despatches for the guidance of British administrators in India. This comprehensive effort brings together different strands of scholarship on Mill to determine the character of his role based on analyses of his draft despatches and comparisons of their practical and theoretical concerns with the broad themes of Mill's major writings on political philosophy and economics. The essays in this collection explore specific aspects of Mill's approach to Indian issues, including religion, law, education, and security, and also place him within the broader currents of utilitarianism. The contributors present different perspectives on the ideology in Mill's pragmatic work for the Company and his personal philosophy."--Jacket


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The voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies, 1591-1603
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ISBN: 1317011929 1315551535 1283090112 9786613090119 1409416917 1409414523 9781409416913 9781409414520 9781409414520 9781317011927 9781315551531 9781283090117 6613090115 9781317011903 1317011910 Year: 2010 Publisher: Surrey Ashgate


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The Corporation That Changed the World : How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
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ISBN: 9781849646918 1849646910 9781849646932 1849646937 9781849646925 1849646929 0745331963 9780745331966 9780745331959 0745331955 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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Offering an account of the forerunner of the modern multinational, this book shows how the East India Company pioneered the model of the corporation that we see in modern times. It also articulates that the company's legacy shows how essential it is to break-up the contemporary over-mighty corporations.

The business of empire : the East India Company and imperial Britain, 1756-1833
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ISBN: 9780521844772 9780521089821 9780511495724 0511146604 9780511146602 0511145810 9780511145810 0511146256 9780511146251 9780511146831 0511146833 0511495722 0505111462 9780505111463 0521844770 1107152011 9781107152014 1280347120 9781280347122 0511312261 9780511312267 0521089824 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.


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Call of empire : from the Highlands to Hindostan
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ISBN: 0773552065 0773552073 9780773552067 9780773552074 9780773551244 0773551247 9780773551244 Year: 2017 Publisher: Montreal & Kingston, [Canada] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."--


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Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading : Tale of Four Indian Cities
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ISBN: 9353280869 9353280850 9789353280857 9353280842 9353289335 9789353280840 Year: 2019 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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"Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities. This resulted in the decline of native cities and prosperity of colonial cities. To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities--Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast; and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations--the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history."--Provided by publisher.

City of capital
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ISBN: 0691044554 0691049602 1282473220 1400822106 9786612473227 140081118X 9781400822102 9780691049601 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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While many have examined how economic interests motivate political action, Bruce Carruthers explores the reverse relationship by focusing on how political interests shape a market. He sets his inquiry within the context of late Stuart England, when an active stock market emerged and when Whig and Tory parties vied for control of a newly empowered Parliament. Carruthers examines the institutional linkage between politics and the market that consisted of three joint-stock companies--the Bank of England, the East India Company, and the South Sea Company--which all loaned large sums to the government and whose shares dominated trading on the stock market. Through innovative research that connects the voting behavior of individuals in parliamentary elections with their economic behavior in the stock market, Carruthers demonstrates that party conflict figured prominently during the company foundings as Whigs and Tories tried to dominate company directorships. For them, the national debt was as much a political as a fiscal instrument.In 1712, the Bank was largely controlled by the Whigs, and the South Sea Company by the Tories. The two parties competed, however, for control of the East India Company, and so Whigs tended to trade shares only with Whigs, and Tories with Tories. Probing such connections between politics and markets at both institutional and individual levels, Carruthers ultimately argues that competitive markets are not inherently apolitical spheres guided by economic interest but rather ongoing creations of social actors pursuing multiple goals.

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Capital market --- Marché financier --- History --- Histoire --- Bank of England --- East India Company --- South Sea Company --- History. --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Marché financier --- Capital markets --- Market, Capital --- Compagnie du Sud --- Company of Merchants Trading to the South Seas --- Governour and Company of Merchants of Great Britain Trading to the South Seas and Other Parts of America, and for Encouraging the Fishery --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Governor and Company of the Bank of England --- Eiran Ginkō --- Old Lady of Threadneedle Street --- Old Lady in Threadneedle Street --- Great Britain. --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Loans --- Money market --- Securities --- Crowding out (Economics) --- Efficient market theory --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Company of Merchants of Great Britain Trading to the South Seas and Other Parts of America, and for Encouraging the Fishery --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī


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Silk and Tea in the North : Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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ISBN: 1349687332 1137455438 1137455446 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe.

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