(Ebook) The East India Company, 1600-1857 : Essays on Anglo-Indian connection by William Andrew Pettigrew & Mahesh Gopalan ISBN 9781138679436, 9781315563466, 1138679437, 1315563460

(Ebook) The East India Company, 1600-1857 : Essays on Anglo-Indian connection by William Andrew Pettigrew & Mahesh Gopalan ISBN 9781138679436, 9781315563466, 1138679437, 1315563460

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how theEast India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between theEnglish and various groups in South Asia between 1600 and 1857 andhow these interactions transformed important features of both British andSouth Asian history. Rather than viewing the company as an organizationprojecting its authority from London to India, the volume shows how thecompany’s history and its broader historical significance can best be under-stood by appreciating the myriad ways in which these interactions shapedthe company’s story and altered the course of history. Bringing togetherthe latest research and several case studies, the work includes examinationsof the formulation of economic theory, the development of corporate strat-egy, the mechanics of state finance, the mapping of maritime jurisdiction,the government and practice of religions, domesticity, travel, diplomacy,state formation, art, gift-giving, incarceration and rebellion. Together, theessays will advance the understanding of the peculiarly corporate featuresof cross-cultural engagement during a crucial early phase of globalization.Insightful and lucid, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers ofmodern history, South Asian studies, economic history and political studies.William A. Pettigrew is Reader, School of History at the University ofKent, UK. He was Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at CorpusChristi College, Oxford (2007–9). He has authored multiple peer-reviewedarticles and a monograph entitled Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Com-pany and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752 (2013).Mahesh Gopalan is Assistant Professor, Department of History at St. Ste-phen’s College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has publishedarticles in edited volumes on the history of the Indian Ocean and on theJesuit Missions. He was recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant in2014 and is currently working on a…