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Sandeep, T. "Acquiring the Power of Natives: The Socio-Economic Transition of Malabar into the Colonial Economy, 1792-1812." International Journal of Social Sciences and Management 1, no. 4 (2014): 160–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v1i4.11180.

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The end of the eighteenth century, the English East India Company dominated most of the part of the Indian peninsula. In a way, it was also considered as the revolutionary transition of the Indian society through the westernization. At the same time, some historians point out that, it was the period of anarchy as well as the dark age of the Indian history. The English East India Company controlled the trade between India and Europe, and finally they acquired the administrative power over India. In the context of Malabar, the English East India Company took the administration in 1792, and emerged as a kind of superlord through the domination over the indigenous rulers. The advent of the Company rule in Malabar replaced the traditional customs and introduced structural changes in the society and economy. This study emphasis on the people’s attitude towards the Company administration in Malabar and how they incorporated to the ‘new administration’. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v1i4.11180 Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-1, issue-4: 160-163
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Fisher, Michael H. "Representations of India, the English East India Company, and Self by an Eighteenth-Century Indian Emigrant to Britain." Modern Asian Studies 32, no. 4 (1998): 891–911. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x9800314x.

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By writing about the late eighteenth-century revolution which led to the East India Company rule, members of a largely Muslim pre-colonial administrative elite in eastern India sought take control over their own history. They explained the society and ancien régime of India, as well as themselves, to the new British rulers for whom they worked. In so doing, they strove to inform and guide the new British colonial authorities into employing them in the new administration as well as into valuing the cultural mores and bureaucratic experience which they embodied. They also wrote introspectively for the own class, trying to understand the causes of the revolution that had displaced their own traditional rulers and themselves with rule by Europeans and administrations staffed increasingly by Indians with backgrounds different from their own.
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BELLENOIT, HAYDEN. "Between qanungos and clerks: the cultural and service worlds of Hindustan's pensmen, c. 1750–1850." Modern Asian Studies 48, no. 4 (2014): 872–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000218.

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AbstractThis paper argues that our understanding of the transition to colonialism in South Asia can be enriched by examining the formation of revenue collection systems in north India between 1750 and 1850. It examines agrarian revenue systems not through the prism of legalism or landholding patterns, but by looking at the paper and record-based mechanisms by which wealth was actually extracted from India's hinterlands. It also examines the Kayastha pensmen who became an exponentially significant component of an Indo-Muslim revenue administration. They assisted the extension of Mughal revenue collection capabilities as qanungos (registrars) and patwaris (accountants). The intensity of revenue assessment, extraction and collection had increased by the mid 1700s, through the extension of cultivation and assessment by regional Indian kingdoms. The East India Company, in its agrarian revenue settlements in north India, utilized this extant revenue culture to push through savage revenue demands. These Kayastha pensmen thus furnished the ‘young’ Company with the crucial skills, physical records, and legitimacy to garner the agrarian wealth which would fund Britain's Indian empire. These more regular patterns of paper-oriented administration engendered a process of ‘bureaucratization’ and the emergence of the modern colonial state.
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Aziz, Ahmad Khalil. "Islamic Resurgence in South Africa." American Journal of Islam and Society 13, no. 3 (1996): 429–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v13i3.2311.

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The contemporary Islamic resurgence and spirit of pan-lslamism thatare being experienced today throughout the world did not come aboutovernight. They are the results of two counterforces operative in any giveperiod of time. On the one hand, there was the deconstructionist force, inthe form of the colonial and imperial forces that sought to destroy theIslamic value system. On the other hand, there was the reconstructionistforce of 'ulama haqq and the Sufi shaykhs, who served as the prime stiinulatorsof the reform impusle and of change in the religiopolitical outlookof Muslims throughout the world.Islam in South AfricaSouth Africa has played a forceful role in maintaining Islam's dynamicposition for about three centuries. The picturesque activities of the earlierulama (in the broadest sense of the word)-particularly the Sufi shaykhs- andearly imams laid the foundations for the contemporary Islamic resurgencein South Africa, as seen in the Musliin Youth Movement and suchother da'wah movements as the Call of Islam. Past workers and presentmovements have been religiopolitical positivists and activists. From theoutset, Muslims needed to reconstruct Islamic education and maintain themomentum of revivalism and resurgence activities.The Dutch East India Company and English East IndiaCompany: A Deconstructionist ForceThe East India Company refers to any of a number of commercialenterprises formed in Western Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies to further trade with the East Indies. These companies weregiven charters by their respective governments to acquire territory whereverthey could and to exercise therein various governmental functions,including legislation, the issuance of currency, the negotiation of treaties,the waging of war, and the administration of justice ...
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Datla, Kavita Saraswathi. "The Origins of Indirect Rule in India: Hyderabad and the British Imperial Order." Law and History Review 33, no. 2 (2015): 321–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248015000115.

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The main problem with the orthodox account of modern world politics is that it describes only one of these patterns of international order: the one that was dedicated to the pursuit of peaceful coexistence between equal and mutually independent sovereigns, which developed within the Westphalian system and the European society of states....Orthodox theorists have paid far too little attention to the other pattern of international order, which evolved during roughly the same period of time, but beyond rather than within Europe; not through relations between Europeans, but through relations between Europeans and non-Europeans. Instead of being based on a states-system, this pattern of order was based on colonial and imperial systems, and its characteristic practice was not the reciprocal recognition of sovereign independence between states, but rather the division of sovereignty across territorial borders and the enforcement of individuals' rights to their persons and property. The American Revolution and the “revolution” in Bengal posed new political questions for domestic British politics and inaugurated a new era for the British empire. As the British committed themselves to the administration of a vast population of non-Europeans in the Indian province of Bengal, and estimations of financial windfalls were presented to stockholders and politicians, the center of the British Empire came slowly to shift toward the East. The evolution of a system of indirect rule in India as it related to larger political questions being posed in Britain, partly because of its protracted and diverse nature, has not received the same attention. Attention to Indian states, in the scholarship on eighteenth century South Asia, has closely followed the expanding colonial frontier, focusing on those states that most engaged British military attention: Bengal, Mysore, and the Marathas. And yet, the eighteenth century should also command our attention as a crucial moment of transition from an earlier Indian Ocean world trading system, in which European powers inserted themselves as one sovereign authority among many, to that of being supreme political authorities of territories that they did not govern directly. India's native states, or “country powers,” as the British referred to them in the eighteenth century, underwrote the expansion of the East India Company in the East. The tribute paid by these states became an important financial resource at the company's disposal, as it attempted to balance its books in the late eighteenth century. Additionally, the troops maintained to protect these states were significant in Britain's late eighteenth century military calculations. These states, in other words, were absolutely central to the forging of the British imperial order, and generative of the very practices that came to characterize colonial expansion and governance.
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Zoli, Corri. "“BLACK HOLES” OF CALCUTTA AND LONDON: INTERNAL COLONIES INVANITY FAIR." Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (2007): 417–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015030705156x.

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY'SVanity Fair(1847–48) makes a passing reference to a seemingly insignificant trope, the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” Part of an eighteenth-century legacy of unofficial rule in India by the East India Trading Company, this reference to a prison incident in June 1756 rehashes the event that occurred there – nearly one hundred years before the novel was published. The name, the “Black Hole,” evokes the prison itself: an enormous pit dug deep into the ground “eighteenth feet long by fourteen feet, ten inches wide,” according to social historian Brijen K. Gupta. It was “British” in the sense that East India Company agents stationed on-the-ground in Calcutta controlled this makeshift dungeon, using it to enforce local trade agreements with native authorities. Those who intervened were deemed traitors, the worst offenders of state.
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Ara, Aniba Israt, and Arshad Islam. "East India Company Strategies in the Development of Singapore." Social Science, Humanities and Sustainability Research 2, no. 3 (2021): p37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sshsr.v2n3p37.

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Singapore in the Malay Peninsula was targeted by the British East India Company (EIC) to be the epicentre of their direct rule in Southeast Asia. Seeking new sources of revenue at the end of the 18th century, after attaining domination in India, the Company sought to extend its reach into China, and Malaya was the natural region to do this, extending outposts to Penang and Singapore. The latter was first identified as a key site by Stamford Raffles. The EIC Governor General Marquess Hastings (r. 1813-1823) planned to facilitate Raffle’s attention on the Malay Peninsula from Sumatra. Raffles’ plan for Singapore was approved by the EIC’s Bengal Government. The modern system of administration came into the Straits Settlements under the EIC’s Bengal Presidency. In 1819 in Singapore, Raffles established an Anglo-Oriental College (AOC) for the study of Eastern languages, literature, history, and science. The AOC was intended firstly to be the centre of local research and secondly to increase inter-cultural knowledge of the East and West. Besides Raffles’ efforts, the EIC developed political and socio-economic systems for Singapore. The most important aspects of the social development of Singapore were proper accommodation for migrants, poverty eradication, health care, a new system of education, and women’s rights. The free trade introduced by Francis Light (and later Stamford Raffles) in Penang and Singapore respectively gave enormous opportunities for approved merchants to expand their commerce from Burma to Australia and from Java to China. Before the termination of the China trade in 1833 Singapore developed tremendously, and cemented the role of the European trading paradigm in the East.
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Collins, Gregory M. "THE LIMITS OF MERCANTILE ADMINISTRATION: ADAM SMITH AND EDMUND BURKE ON BRITAIN’S EAST INDIA COMPANY." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 41, no. 03 (2019): 369–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837218000354.

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It is often claimed that Adam Smith and Edmund Burke held similar views on matters relating to political economy. One area of tension in their thought, however, was the institutional credibility of Britain’s East India Company. They both argued that the Company corrupted market order in India, but while Smith supported the termination of the firm’s charter, Burke aspired to preserve it. This article examines why they arrived at such divergent conclusions. It argues that the source of Burke and Smith’s friction arose from the dissimilar frames of reference through which they assessed the credibility of the Company. Burke examined the corporation’s legitimacy through the lens of British prescriptive, imperial, and constitutional history, yet Smith evaluated it as part of his larger attack on the mercantile system. These different frames of reference were responsible for the further incongruities in their thought on the Company relating to the role of prescription and imperial honor in political communities, the qualifications of traders to rule, and the appropriate tempo of policy reform. This article concludes that, even with such differences, the two thinkers’ respective criticisms of the Company illustrate the threat that monopolies pose to the liberal order.
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SHODHAN, Amrita. "The East India Company’s Conquest of Assam, India, and “Community” Justice: Panchayats/Mels in Translation." Asian Journal of Law and Society 2, no. 2 (2015): 357–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2015.12.

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AbstractThe East India Company troops fighting the Burmese aggression on the frontier of Bengal in Eastern India “freed” upper and lower Assam territories in 1825. David Scott of the Bengal Service was appointed to oversee the establishment of civil and revenue administration in these frontier territories. He established a hierarchical multiple structure of “native courts”—called panchayats—as the chief medium of civil and criminal justice. This was ostensibly continuing a traditional Assamese form of dispute resolution—the mel; however, the British criminal jury as well as the expert assessor model animated the system. After his death in 1831, the system was brought in line with the rest of the Bengal administration based on the British court system. His experiment, paralleled in many other newly conquered and ceded districts from the Madras territories to Central India, suggests the use of this mode in post-conquest situations by British administrators in South Asia.
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Mulholland, James. "Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 2 (2020): 272–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.272.

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This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its colonies that has been the prevailing emphasis of literary criticism about empire. I focus on the eighteenth century's overlooked military men and lowlevel colonial administrators who wrote newspaper verse, travel poetry, and plays. I place their compositions in an institutional chronicle defined by the “cultural company‐state,” the British East India Company, which patronized and censored Anglo- India's multilingual reading publics. In the process of arguing for Anglo‐Indian literature as a local and regional creation, I consider the how the terms British and anglophone should function in literary studies of colonialism organized not by hybridity or creolization but by geographic relations of distinction. (JM)
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "East India Company; Colonies; Administration"

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Wilson, Jon E. "Governing property, making law : land, local society and colonial discourse in Agrarian Bengal, c.1785-1830." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368131.

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Steadman-Jones, Richard. "Colonialism and linguistic knowledge : John Gilchrist and the representation of Urdu in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272827.

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Etter, Anne-Julie. "Les antiquités de l'Inde : monuments, collections et administration coloniale (1750-1835)." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070063.

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Cette thèse examine les liens entre l'étude du passé et la mise en place et le fonctionnement de l'administration coloniale en Inde. Un processus d'inventaire, de description et de conservation des vestiges matériels de la civilisation indienne se développe au moment où l'East India Company (EIC) se transforme en puissance politique, gouvernant un nombre croissant de territoires du sous-continent. La multiplication des travaux sur les antiquités, encouragée par la création de l'Asiatic Society du Bengale, la fondation de musées à Londres et à Calcutta et l'instauration de mesures d'entretien et de réparation d'édifices en sont autant de manifestations. Les employés civils et militaires de l'EIC qui mènent des recherches antiquaires et collectionnent des objets (statues, inscriptions, monnaies, etc. ) sont au coeur de ce mouvement. Ils sont donc les protagonistes de cette étude, qui analyse également le rôle des informateurs, des assistants et des savants indiens, ainsi que celui de l'EIC en tant qu'institution. La présentation de la contribution des différents acteurs permet d'éclairer les méthodes et les concepts qui sous-tendent l'étude des antiquités indiennes, inspirés en partie de celle des antiquités européennes, mais aussi les finalités de l'exploration et de la conservation des monuments, dont les enjeux sont à la fois savants et politiques. Cette thèse se situe ainsi à la croisée de l'histoire coloniale, de l'histoire de l'orientalisme et de celle de l'antiquariat<br>This dissertation explores the relationship between the study of the past and the rise and functioning of colonial administration in India. Description and preservation of material remains of Indian civilization developed as the East India Company (EIC) became a political power in India, ruling a growing number of territories. Proliferation of works on antiquities, encouraged by the creation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, foundation of museums at London and Calcutta, promotion of care and repair of selected buildings all attest to that process. Civil and military employees of the EIC who undertake antiquarian researches and collect objects (statues, inscriptions, coins, etc. ) lie at the heart of that movement. This study also details the role of Indian assistants, informants and scholars, as well as that of the EIC as an institution. Through an analysis of the contribution of those various actors, it throws light upon methods and concepts underlying investigation or Indian antiquities, partly inspired by that of European antiquities. It also examines the ends of exploration and preservation of monuments, which deal with both scholar and political spheres. This dissertation thus lies at the junction of colonial history, history of orientalism and that of antiquarianism
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Books on the topic "East India Company; Colonies; Administration"

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Aspinall, A. Cornwallis in Bengal. Uppal Pub. House, 1987.

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Niedda, Daniele. Governare la diversità: Edmund Burke e l'India. Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013.

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Document Raj: Writing and scribes in early colonial south India. The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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The domination of strangers: Modern governance in eastern India, 1780-1835. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Sir John Malcolm and the creation of British India. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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The East India Company and the natural world. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Oltarzhevskiĭ, V. P. Angliĭskai͡a︡ Ost-Indskai͡a︡ kompanii͡a︡ v XVII veke. Izd-vo Irkutskogo universiteta, 1988.

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Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial currencies of gender. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Theal, George McCall. History of South Africa under the administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652 to 1795). Swan Sonnenschein, 1985.

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McCall, Theal George. History of South Africa under the administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652 to 1795). Swan Sonnenschein, 1985.

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Blussé, Leonard. "An Insane Administration and Insanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799)." In Colonial Cities. Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6119-7_5.

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Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. "Absence of a Definite Archives Policy." In Archiving the British Raj. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489923.003.0002.

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After the termination of East India Company administration, there was an attempt to put in order the records of the Government of India. Since the issue of expenditure and financial stringency comes up repeatedly in the discussions on this matter, this chapter dwells on the nature and extent of financial stringency which formed the background to the first steps taken by the Government of India with regard to records after the termination of the East India Company’s rule. The chapter also explores some other key questions: Who were the people interested in and responsible for the organization and preservation of records after the takeover of the Indian government by the Crown? Were persons who had historical interest appointed to serve as members of the Records Committee, 1861–72? How did colonial historians address the issue of documenting their narratives before an archive came into existence? The chapter also looks at the legacy of Lord Macaulay.
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Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas. "Imperial Culture and Hunting in Colonial India." In Shooting a Tiger. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489381.003.0002.

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This chapter offers a brief account of the institution of the hunt, or shikar, and its significance as an allegory of rule in pre-colonial and colonial India, by illustrating the transition of hunting from the Mughals to the East Indian Company period. Further, this study moves away from the purely recreational focus on hunting, and places it within the world of everyday colonial administration and rule. It firmly establishes the link between shikar and governance, particularly how the British positioned and employed big-game hunting and conservation at various levels, and in different situations, aimed at the establishment and stabilization of colonial rule, and in ordering and redrawing Indian marginal territories. Another key aspect is how shikar served as an essential platform, where power and rule operated in a recreational situation. Here, the chapter illustrates the way the hunting field aided and enabled the British to formulate their political and imperial agendas in an expedient way. The sporting lives of the Company administrators like John Malcolm and James Outram are studied in detail to demonstrate the nature of high imperial decades and British military credence in the Indian hunting field.
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Leonard, Spencer A. "Can Imperialists Produce Knowledge?" In Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190914400.003.0010.

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Mountstuart Elphinstone's administration as Governor of Bombay consolidated East India Company rule over large tracts of Central, Western, and Northwestern India. It represented a new and unmistakable projection of both British armed force and knowledge production. In this chapter, the work of a prominent soldier-administrator scholar whose work was strongly encouraged by Elphinstone, the father of Maratha history, James Grant Duff, is taken up. The line of argument is that, despite the imperial and military conditions that made Grant Duff's research possible, it is a mistake to see it simply as a project of colonial hegemony and not a major, even foundational intellectual production and act of public reason submitted to the cosmopolitan world of letters from which Indians were not, in principle, excluded. The chapter thus suggests grounds for breaking with the Saidian paradigm not simply on positivist grounds, but in favor of finer grained historical and more discerning ideological analysis. This means paying close attention to Grant Duff's (and his History's) struggle against the East India Company itself, whose chief interest was not knowledge so much as secrecy.
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Schopp, Susan E. "Biographical Sketches." In Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698-1842. Hong Kong University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528509.003.0009.

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Chapter 8 presents a partial list of traders, hydrographers, naturalists and others who played a role in Sino-French trade at Canton, and provides brief biographical information about each. A large number had relatives in the colonial or French East India Company administration, or in Canton or other French overseas trading centers. Most came from families that were long established in France, but there were exceptions; the best known include Julien-Joseph Duvelaër and his brother Pierre, whose paternal grandfather immigrated to France from the Netherlands in the seventeenth century; François and Edmond Roth(e), Irish Jacobite refugees who acquired French nationality by naturalization; and the Protestant Charles de Constant, a francophone Swiss whose family fled France during the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century.
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Rossum, Matthias van. "The Dutch East India Company in Asia, 1595–1811." In A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350000704.ch-006.

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Pergam, Elizabeth A. "An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum : The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857." In The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720809_ch07.

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This chapter seeks to reconstruct Saloon G at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Devoted primarily to objects from the Indian subcontinent, this section of the ground-breaking, blockbuster exhibition was drawn mostly from the holdings of the Honorable East India Company. India and Manchester were linked through their common interest in cotton; however, there was surprisingly little commentary at the time about the connections. The turmoil in India that began days after the opening Art Treasures Palace had a decided impact on the objects that were on view to the public. With little extant documentation about the specific works on view, this chapter confronts mid-Victorian attitudes to the applied arts, as well as objects produced in the “colonies.”1
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"The Central Administration Of The VOC Government And The Local Institutions Of Batavia (1619-1811) – An Introduction." In The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta). BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004163652.1-556.7.

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Howes, Anton. "A Society against Ugliness." In Arts and Minds. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691182643.003.0009.

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This chapter examines the Great Exhibition of 1851, which is considered an industrial audit of the world that included exhibits from Britain's empire and other foreign nations. It talks about the East India Company, a private company that exercised control over almost all of the Indian subcontinent that provided displays of the products of India in the Great Exhibition. It also explains the aim of the Great Exhibition, which was to reveal to merchants and manufacturers in Britain the kinds of raw materials that might be imported for Englishmen to work upon. The chapter highlights the Royal Society of Arts' activities over the previous century, which focused on the spread of information instead of awarding premiums for exploiting new resources. It describes how the products of Britain's colonies brought attention to merchants and manufacturers in Britain itself.
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