P. J. Marshall

Problems of Empire (eBook, PDF)

Britain and India, 1757-1813

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1968, is a study of the impact made on Britain by the conquest of large parts of India in the second half of the eighteenth century. The sudden success of the East India Company in subjugating a vast population with a sophisticated civilization created problems of an unprecedented kind for Britain. It raised in an acute form questions about the scope and limits of state action, the rights of chartered bodies, the duties of conquerors to subject peoples, the appropriateness of exporting western ideals and concepts of law and government to Asia, and the manner in which the resources of the East could best contribute to Britain's power and wealth.

These and similar topics were discussed at length in Parliament, the press, books and pamphlets, and in the correspondence of private individuals. A selection of this material, drawing on a wide and varied range of printed and manuscript sources, has been made to illustrate the arguments used in this debate and the manner in which solutions to some of the problems were gradually worked out over a period of more than fifty years. By 1813, after much trial and error, the outline of the political, administrative and economic links which were to bind India to Britain for much of the nineteenth century are already visible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351121583
• Artikelnr.: 54194285

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction; Author's Note; Introduction; Documents; 1. The Petition of the City of London against Lord North's Regulating Act
28 May
1773 2. 2 Laurence Sulivan's Instructions to his son on going to India
circa 6 April
1778 3. North's Regulating Act
1773 (Clauses relating to the organization of the Company) 4. John Robinson's 'Considerations on East India Affairs'
1778 5. Dundas's Bill of 1783 (Clauses relating to the organization of the Company) 6. Fox's First India Bill
1783 7. Pitt's India Act
1784 (Clauses relating to the organization of the Company and the Powers of the Board of Control) 8. Lord Castlereagh to Lord Melville
4 August
1803 9. Lord Melville to Lord Castlereagh
4 August
1803 10. The Court of Directors to the Board of Control
6 November
1805 11. An Examination before the House of Commons
18 December
1772 12. The Nabob
a Play by Samuel Foote
Act II 13. William Cowper to the Reverend William Unwire
3 January
1784 14. North's Regulating Act
1773 (Clauses relating to the Government of India) 15. Resolutions on Indian Affairs Passed by the House of Commons
28 May
1782 16. Dundas's Bill of 1783 (Clauses relating to the Government of India) 17. Fox's Second India Bill
1783 18. Pitt's India Act
1784 (Clauses relating to the Government of India) 19. Lord Clive's Defence before the House of Commons
1 May 1773 20. Warren Hastings's Defence before the House of Commons
1 May
1786 21. Edmund Burke
'Speech on Mr Fox's East India Bill'
1 December
1783 22. Edmund Burke's Speech at the Trial of Warren Hastings
28 May
1794 23. Adam Smith on the East India Company 24. Thomas Pow fall on the Government of India
1781 25. Robert Grant
in Defence of the Company
1813 26. Resolutions of the Committee of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty
2 March
1813 27. William Wilberforce on Missions
1813 28. Against Missionaries
1807 29. The Virtues of Indian Civilization
1813 30. The Charter of the 'New' East India Company
5 September
1698 31. Criticism of the Shipping System of the East India Company
1795 32. A Defence of the Shipping System of the East India Company
1799 33. The Court of Directors' Dispatch to the Bengal Council
21 November
1766 34. The Commutation Act
1784 35. The Case of the Cotton Industry
1788 36. The First Report of the Select Committee of the Court of Directors on Exports
1 September
1791 37. 'Hints respecting the E[ast] I[ndian] Trade'
4 March
1793 38. Henry Dundas to Francis Baring
16 February
1793 39. The Charter Act of 1793 40. Opposition to European Colonization in India 41. A Petition against the East India Company's Monopoly 42. Lord Grenville on Indian Trade
1813 43. A Report of a Committee of Correspondence of the Court of Directors
9 February
1813 44. A Defence of the Company's Monopoly
1813 45. The Charter Act of 1813; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index