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The making of modern Afghanistan
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B. D. Hopkins |
"This book examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century. It challenges the staid assump… |
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The embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619
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Roe, Thomas Sir |
Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in… |
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BENNETT LETTERS
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COLIN FOX |
The Bennett family whose letters form the guiding thread through this book lived lives that spanned the whole of the 19th century. The letters are not essays or dry official reports; they are full of… |
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The devil's company
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David Liss |
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi… |
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The company rule in India
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Sheela Saha |
On the British and East India Company rule with particular focus on Bihar from 1757-1858; a study. |
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Indian ink
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Miles Ogborn |
A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and kno… |
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A rule of property for Bengal
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Ranajit Guha |
Guha is one of the colleagues of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Subaltern Studies group in India. Edward Said, in his book *Culture and Imperialism* (1993) says, "Guha is . . . concerned with the probl… |
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Empire made
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Kief Hillsbery |
"Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, twenty-year-o… |
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Goddess of fire
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Bharti Kirchner |
Moorti--widowed at just 17 and about to be burned on her husband's funeral pyre--is saved from the fire by a mysterious Englishman. Taken to safety and given employment by her saviour Job Charnock, M… |
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The detective and the devil
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Lloyd Shepherd |
London, 1815: Constable Charles Horton of the River Police Office is called to investigate the brutal murder of a clerk and his family in London's East End. Horton's investigation draws him into the … |
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These Savage Shores
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Sumit Kumar,Ram V |
Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, the East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 176… |
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Til death do us part
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Sara Fraser |
Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald, but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion, the Reverend Geraint Winward, real… |
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The honourable company
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John Keay |
A history of the company from its beginnings as an association of Elizabethan tradesmen to its becoming one of the most powerful forces in the world. |
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East India Company
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Brian Gardner |
For over 200 years the East India Company, a joint-stock corporation of London traders with shares which were daily bought and sold on the Exchange, functioned as the de facto government of India, ex… |
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European merchant capital and the Indian economy
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Ruby Maloni |
Based on manuscripts housed in the Dept. of Archives, Maharashtra State. |
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Jewel of the Night
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Helen Dickson |
Impoverished Judith Wyatt had planned to become a schoolteacher at the academy where she had been educated after the murder of her parents in India. Yet after spending some weeks with her friend Char… |
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The East Indiamen
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Time-Life Books,Russell Miller |
A wonderful book filled with illustrations about the men and the ships that sailed to the East Indies in search of spice and treasure. |
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Bencoolen
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Alan Harfield |
A list of names and other lnformation from the British graves at Bengkuku on the west coast of Sumatra, which the Honorable East India Company occupied from 1685 to 1825. |
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