The East India Company, 1600--1857 : Essays on Anglo-Indian connection /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge India,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Contributors; 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, c. 1680-1740Part II Religion, society, ethnographic reconnaissance and inter-cultural encounters; 5 'God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem': the changing face of religious governance and religious sufferance in the East India Company, 1610-1670; 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 KhanPart III Diplomacy, power and the company state; 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