The twilight of the East India Company : the evolution of Anglo-Asian commerce and politics, 1790-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Webster, Anthony
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York : Boydell Press, 2009.
Series:	Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 3.
Subjects:	East India Company > History. Great Britain > Commerce > India > Great Britain > History. India > Commerce > Great Britain > India > History. Great Britain > Commerce > Asia > Great Britain > History. Asia > Commerce > Great Britain > History. Great Britain > Foreign relations > India. India > Foreign relations > Great Britain. Great Britain > Foreign relations > Asia. Asia > Foreign relations > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the end of the East India Company, the historians and the evolution of Anglo-Indian commerce and politics
The origins of the East India Company and the rise of non-Company commercial interests in Britain, India and Asia, 1600-1793
War, politics and India: the battle for the East India Company trade monopoly, 1793-1813
Accommodating free trade: India, the East India Company and the commercial revolution of 1814-1830
Crisis and trade liberalisation 1830-1834: financial chaos and the end of the East India Company's commercial role and privileges
Re-ordering Anglo-Asian commerce and politics: 1833-1847
Crisis, the resurgence of London and the end of the East India Company: 1847-1860
Conclusion: the decline of the East India Company and the evolution of British commercial and political interests in Asia, 1793-1860.