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Work InformationThe East India Company, 1784-1834 by C. H. Philips
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Originally published in 1940, this '.is the first detailed study and appraisal of the relations between the Court of Directors and the Board of Control during the fifty formative years after Pitt set up this government office to direct and control the Company's Indian administration. it was an extremely intricate system of dual government with checks and balances and interlocking factions and interests.' Contents Include: The East India House, 1784-1834 The Opposition of the Indian Interest, 1784-88 The Ascendancy of Dundas, 1788 94 The Revolt of the Shipping Interest 1794-1802 The Triumph of the Shipping Interest, 1802-06 The India House Divided Against Itself, 1806-12 Buckinghamshire Versus The India House, 1812-16 Canning's East India Policy, 1816-22 The Failure of the Private Trade Interest, 1822-30 The Company's Surrender, 1830-34 Concluding Remarks No library descriptions found. |
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Moreover, the book's primarily about the principal actors in the negotiations; minor players are often mentioned but are rarely given more than cursory notice. It helped a whole lot that I was already familiar with some of the figures participating; even so, I needed to review the biographies of Henry and Robert Dundas, and to remind myself of the Indian roles of the Wellesleys.
All that said, this wasn't the book I'd hoped to read. I was hoping for more about the routine activities of the merchants and shippers. While there's certainly information about those ventures in this book, it's pretty much incidental to the main discussion. I may have to hunt down another book.
Just a short note on the ebook conversion....
This was originally an academic work published in 1940. The ebook is built from an excellent scan, and in general the conversion went well. But--what to do about the footnotes? The original manuscript had footnotes on each page, numbered from 1 to whatever. Preserving that format was clearly not an option, so instead the notes became chapter endnotes--with their original numbers. This was likely a mistake, as a routine result of following a hyperlinked footnote is to find a page with two or three footnotes numbered 2 (or whatever). Figuring out which note was relevant to your interest can be a bit problematical.
Better, I'd think, to change the numbering system. It's not like abandoning the original numbers would damage the book.
This review has also been published on a dabbler's journal. ( )