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politics, scholarship and the military in making British India
xi, 215 pages, 16 unnumbered color pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than twenty years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged thirty, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807. Both men had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children, nine of whom were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by John's sister Margaret Baillie. This book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-208) and index.