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First posted on December 14th 2005, last revised on April 4th 2010

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Bruce Buchan, The East India Company 1749-1800 : The Evolution of a Territorial Strategy and the Changing Role of Directors, Business and Economic History 1994 pp.52-61 Military in general Category : Military History of the British East India Company, from Wikipedia British Conquest and Dominion of India, from India Net Zone, subchapters Batta Crisis (1766), from India Net Zone Military Administration of British India, from India Net Zone Military Regiments Category : Honourable East India Company Regiments, from Wikipedia Articles The Madras Regiment, Bengal Army, Bengal Native Infantry, 84th Regiment on Foot (1759), from Wikipedia Military Forts, Garrisons Articles : Cantonment : British India, from Wikipedia Articles : Forts in India, Fort William (India), Fort St. George (India), Vellore Fort, Munger Fort, Bekal Fort, Fort St. David, Fort (Mumbai Precinct), Sitabuldi Fort, from Wikipedia Article Fort William, from Banglapedia Military Wars Articles : Anglo-Mysore Wars 1766-1769, 1780-1784, 1789-1792, 1798-1799, Rohilla War 1773-1774, Anglo-Maratha Wars 1777-1783, 1803-1805, 1817-1818, Vellore Mutiny 1806, Anglo-Dutch Java War 1810-1811, Gurkha War 1814-1816, First Anglo-Burmese War 1823-1826, First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842, First Opium War 1839-1843, Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845-1849, Second Anglo-Burmese War 1852-1853, Indian Rebellion of 1857, from Wikipedia Batta Crisis (1766), from India Net Zone Articles : Java Expedition of 1811, from Your Archives Articles : Second Maratha War (1802-1805), British Expedition to Ceylon (1803-1804), Vellore Mutiny (1806), Anglo-Dutch War in Java (1810-1811), The Gurkha War (1814-1816), British Expedition to Ceylon (1815), Third Maratha War (1817-1818), Sinhalese Insurrection (1817-1818), First Anglo-Burmese War (1823-1826), British Conquest of Bhurtpore (1826), First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842), First Opium War (1839-1842), Britain Annexation of Sindh (1843), First Sikh War (1845-1846), Second Sikh War (1848-1849), Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852-1853), from ACED Events not dealt with in separate articles : Campaign against Persian Gulf Pirates 1819, British seizure of Aden 1839 Article : Sepoy Rebellion, from Banglapedia Military Battles Category : Naval Battles of the British East India Company, from Wikipedia Articles Battle of Plassey (1757), Battle of Buxar (1764), Battle of Seedaseer (1799), Battle of Seringapatam (1799), Battle of Assaye (1803), Battle of Delhi (1803), Battle of Laswari (1803), Battle of Khadki (1817), from Wikipedia Article Battle of Palashi (1757), Buxar, Battle of (1764), from Banglapedia Economy & Finances general history Article : Economic History of India : British East India Company, from Wikipedia Andrew van Nordenflycht, The Great Expropriation : Understanding the Innovation of "Permanent Capital" at the Dutch and English East India Companies, draft 2009 Kaoru Sugihara, Notes on the Trade Statistics of British India David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent, accessible through Science Direct G. Kaushal, Economic History of India 1757 to 1966, New Delhi : Kalyani 1979, 713 pp. [G] British India, in : Lilian Charlotte, Economic History of Asia and Africa, New Delhi (c. 1926) reprint 1998, pp.258-466 [G] Om Prakash, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, The New Cambridge History of India, Cambridge : UP (1998) 2000 [G] U.R. Bansal and B.B. Bansal, Industries in India during 18th and 19th century, Indian Journal of History of Science 19 (3) 1984 pp.215-223 moments in time Gülich, Gustav von, Geschichtliche Darstellung des Handels, der Gewerbe und des Ackerbaus der bedeutenden handeltreibenden Staaten unserer Zeit (Historical Description of Trade, Industry and Agriculture of the Important Trading States of Our Time), Jena : Frommann 6 vol.s 1830-1845, chapter : Ostindien, China und Japan, vol.2 1830 pp.3-29, posted by DTBSWS Nopitsch, Wilhelm Hermann, Kaufmännische Berichte, gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Welt mit der Kriegs-Corvette Galathea, in den Jahren 1845, 1846 und 1847, Hamburg : Besser & Mauke 1849, in German, posted by DTBSWS, Kalkutta pp.1-32 H. St. George Tucker, A review of the financial situation of the East-India company in 1824 (1825), posted on Internet Archive Money & Finances Coins of East India Company and Modern India, from Nupam's Webpage for the Indian Coins British Land Revenue System in India, from India Net Zone Plantations, Agriculture Velayutham Saravanan, Economic Exploitation of Forest Resources in South India during the Early 19th Century, IEHC 2006 History of Beginning of Tea Industry in India, from India Net Zone Article : Assam Tea : History, Darjeeling Tea : History, from Wikipedia Darjeeling Tea History, from Darjeeling News R. Alexander, The Rise and Progress of British Opium Smuggling, the Illegality of the East India Company's Monopoly of the drug ... (1856), posted on Internet Archive Mines S. Bagchi and A.K. Ghose, History of Mining in India c.1400-1800, Technology Status, Indian Journal of History of Science 15/1 1980 pp.25-29 Mining History in India, from India Biz Club Some Important Facts about the History of Coal Mining in India, from Envis History, from Eastern Coalfields Limited Textiles S.A. Aziz Shah, West lost textile world championship to east Indian Textiles : Trade and Production, from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History David Washbrook, The Textile Industry and Economy of South India 1500-1800 : Some Notes and Queries, draft Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta, Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence : Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850 2005 Ethnography, Social History Demography Articles Famine in India, Timeline of major famines in India during British rule (1765 to 1947), from Wikipedia Famine in India and the Colonial World, from Indic Studies; Famines in India, from India Net Zone History of Indian Census, from Census of India Medical History of British India : Cholera, Malaria, Plague, from NLS Cholera and Colonialism in British India, 1986 article accessible through Past and Present, Oxford Journals Social History Socio-Economic Conditions of Eighteenth Century India, from India Net Zone Articles Thuggee, Widow Remarriage Act (1856), Sati (practice), from Wikipedia Article Widow Burning, from Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Indraneel Dasgupta, A Revisionist Analysis of the Failure of the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856, Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Science 2007 Law Commission of India, 81st Report; Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856 (1979) Hindu Bengali Widows through the Centuries, from Datamation Foundation Article : Caste System in India : British Rule, from Wikipedia J. Peggs, India's Cries to British Humanity, Relative to the Suttee, Infanticide, .. (1832), posted on Internet Archive E. Thompson, Suttee. A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Hindu Rite of Widow Burning (1928), posted on Internet Archive J. Cave-Browne, Indian Infanticide, its Origin, Progress, and Suppression (1857), posted on Internet Archive J. Wilson, History of the Suppression of Infanticide in Western India under the Government of Bombay .. (1855), posted on Internet Archive B.D. Basu, History of Education in India under the East India Company (c.1867), posted on Internet Archive Religion First Phase of Missionary Activities of British in India, Missionary Activities of British in India, from India Net Zone Faraizi Movement, from India Net Zone History of Regions in India Bombay Presidency, Madras Presidency, Bengal Pumendu Basu, Oudh and the East India Company (1943), posted on Internet Archive S. Lucas, J.R. Taylor, Dacoitee in excelsis; or, The spoliation of Oude, by the East India Company, faithfully recounted (1857), posted on Internet Archive in SE Asia Straits Settlements, Arakan, Burma, Tenasserim Article : Bengkulu from Wikipedia; History of Bengkulu, blog in Arabia Aden Article : Aden : British Rule, from Wikipedia Local History Article History of Calcutta, from Wikipedia History of Mumbai, from The Mumbai Pages History of Chennai (Madras), from Chennai Best Structures, Institutions Scientific Associations in British India, from India Net Zone Advent of English Education in British India, from India Net Zone Culture & Science Biographies Article Charles Cornwallis, from Wikipedia Article Warren Hastings, from Wikipedia Article : East India Company : Governors General, from Wikipedia; links to individual biographies Others East India Company Ships WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS Historical Data Lists of Statesmen World Statesmen : India, by Ben Cahoon Article : East India Company : Governors General, from Wikipedia Documents Historical Newspapers Image Databanks Archival Deposits Constitutions, Laws Laws 1836-1872, from Bangladesh Laws The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act of 1856, from Bangladesh Laws Indian Legislation 1836-2007 Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850, from Indian Legislation Papers Respecting the Negociation with His Majesty's Ministers for a Renewal of the East India Company's Exclusive Privileges, 1813, GB Treaty Collections C.U. Aitchison, A Collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds, relating to India and neighbouring countries, vol.1 (1892), vol.2 (1892), vol.3 (1863), vol.3 (1909), vol.4 (1893), vol.5 (1876), vol.5 (1892), vol.6 (1892), vol.7 (1862), vol.7 (1892), vol.8 (1892), vol.9 (1892), vol.10 (1892), vol.11 (1892), vol.13 (1909), posted on Internet Archive Treaties with the King of Persia, Runjeet Sing, the King of Cabool, the Ameers of Sinde and the Nawab of Bahawulpore, etc (1839), posted on Internet Archive Annals of Indian Administration 1856, posted on Internet Archive Document Collections W. Foster (ed.), Letters Received By The East India Company, vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, vol.4, vol.6, 1896-1902 posted on Internet Archive A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1635-1639 (1907), 1640-1643 (1909), 1644-1649 (1912), 1650-1654 (1913), 1655-1659, 1660-1663 (1922), posted on Internet Archive Individual Documents Memoir on the affairs of the East-India Company (1830), posted on Internet Archive British Parliament, East India Company, India and China Trade (1833), posted on Internet Archive The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies: As Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India (1886), posted on Internet Archive G. Buist, Annals of India for the year 1848; an outline of the principal events which have occurred in the British dominions in India from 1st January 1848 to the end of the second Seikh War in March 1849 (1849), posted on Internet Archive First, Second and Third Reports of the Select Committee Appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to take into Consideration the Export Trade from Great Britain to the East Indies, 1793, GB Historical Maps Schwartzberg, Historical Atlas of South Asia, posted by DSAL Historical Encyclopedia Entries Article : East India Company, from EB 1911 J. Chr. Nelkenbrecher, Allgemeines Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maass- und Gewichtskunde für Banquiers und Kaufleute (General Manual on Coinage, Measurement and Weights, for Bankers and Merchants) Berlin 1832, in German, entries Benares, Bombay, Calcutta, Calicut, Delhi, Koromandel, Madras, Malabar, Masulipatam, Seringapatam, Surate, posted by DTBSWS The East Indies, p.126-137 in J. Bellamy, The history of all religions, 1820, GB Ostindien, pp.677-696 in vol.2 of C.Fr. Staeudlin, Kirchliche Geographie u. Statistik, 1804, in German, GB Ethnographical Indes Britanniques, pp.358-369 in X. Heuschling, Manual de statistique ethnographique universelle, 1847, in French, GB Parliamentary Debates foreign Hansard (British Parliament) Tour Guides, Travelogues Institutions Archives Musea Monuments Libraries Official Symbols Flags, Coats of Arms Flag, from FOTW Coins, Banknotes East India Company Coins, posted by Carey Center East India Company Currency, from Weights and Measures Coins of the E.I.C., from Zeno Coin, from Coin Pictures PRINTED REFERENCE Bibliographies general Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies) (site in German, most titles listed in English; numerous entries; publications mostly since 1970) RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library ISBN Database on the E.I.C. Bibliography on Topics Relevant to Indic Civilization, from Indic Studies Online Libraries general Internet Archives Gutenberg Library Online e-corpus International Boundary Studies Center for Research Libraries (CRL) on the E.I.C. Online Journals full text online The Asiatic Annual Register, 1799, 1801, IA, 1800, 1801, IA, 1801, 1802, IA, 1802, 1803, IA, 1803, 1804, IA, 1804, 1806, IA, 1805, 1807, IA, 1806, 1809, IA, 1807, 1809, IA, 1808, 1811, IA, 1809, 1811, IA, 1810/11, 1812, IA The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British India and its dependencies vol.6 : June-Dec. 1818, GB, vol.7 : Jan.-Jun. 1819, GB, vol.8 : July-Dec. 1819, GB, vol.9 : Jan.-Jun. 1820, GB, vol.10 : Jul.-Dec. 1820, GB, vol.11 : Jan.-Jun. 1821, GB, vol.12 : Jul.-Dec. 1821, GB, vol.13 : Jan.-Jun. 1822, GB, vol.14 : Jul.-Dec. 1822, GB, vol.15 : Jan.-Jun. 1823, GB, vol.16 : Jul.-Dec. 1823, GB, vol.17 : Jan.-Jun. 1824, GB, vol.18 : Jul.-Dec. 1824, GB, vol.19 : Jan.-Jun. 1825, GB, vol.20 : Jul.-Dec. 1825, GB, vol.21 : Jan.-Jun. 1826, GB, vol.23 : Jan.-Jun. 1827, GB, vol.24 : Jul.-Dec. 1827, GB, vol.25 : Jan.-Jun. 1828, GB, vol.26 : Jul.-Dec. 1828, GB, vol.28 : Jul.-Dec. 1828, GB, The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia vol.1 : Jan.-Apr. 1830, GB, vol.2 : May-Aug. 1830, GB, vol.3 : Sep.-Dec. 1830, GB, vol.4 : Jan.-Apr. 1831, GB, vol.6 : Sep.-Dec. 1831, GB, vol.7 : Jan.-Apr. 1832, GB, vol.8 : May-Aug. 1832, GB, vol.9 : Sep.-Dec. 1832, GB, vol.11 : May-Aug. 1833, GB, vol.12 : Sep.-Dec. 1833, GB, vol.13 : Jan.-Apr. 1834, GB, vol.14 : May-Aug. 1834, GB, vol.15 : Sep.-Dec. 1834, GB, vol.16 : Jan.-Apr. 1835, GB, vol.17 : May-Aug. 1835, GB, vol.18 : Sep.-Dec. 1835, GB, vol.19 : Jan.-Apr. 1836, GB, vol.20 : May-Aug. 1836, GB, vol.21 : Sep.-Dec. 1836, GB, vol.22 : Jan.-Apr. 1837, GB, vol.23 : May-Aug. 1837, GB, vol.24 : Sep.-Dec. 1837, GB, vol.25 : Jan.-Apr. 1838, GB, vol.26 : May-Aug. 1838, GB, vol.27 : Sep.-Dec. 1838, GB, vol.29 : May-Aug. 1839, GB, vol.31 : Jan.-Apr. 1840, GB, vol.32 : May-Aug. 1840, GB, vol.33 : Sep.-Dec. 1840, GB, vol.34 : Jan.-Apr. 1841, GB, vol.35 : May-Aug. 1841, GB, vol.36 : Sep.-Dec. 1841, GB, vol.37 : Jan.-Apr. 1842, GB, vol.38 : May-Aug. 1842, GB, vol.39 : Sep.-Dec. 1842, GB, vol.40 : Jan.-Apr. 1843, GB Table of Contents Online General Accounts B.D. Metcalf and T.R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge : UP 2002, 321 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 M588c Vincent A. Smith, The Oxford History of India, (1919) Oxford : UP 2001, 945 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 S642b Gordon Johnson, Cultural Atlas of India, NY : Facts on File 1996, 240 pp., illustrated, KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 J66c H.S. Bhatta, Military History of British India (1607-1947), New Delhi : Deep & Deep 1977, 256 pp. [G] Francis Watson, India. A Concise History, London : Thames & Hudson (1974) 1996, 192 pp. [G] D.A. Washbrook, India 1818-1860 : Two Faces of Colonialism, pp.395-421, in : Andrew Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol.III : The Nineteenth Century, Oxford : UP 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 909.0971241 O98o v.3 P.J. Marshall, The English in Asia to 1700, pp.264-285 in : Nicholas Canny (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol.I : TheOrigins of Empire, Oxford : UP 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 909.0971241 O98o v.3 John Keay, The Honourable Company, A History of the English East India Company, NY : MacMillan 1991 [G] Economic, Social History The law relating to India, and the East-India Company; with notes and an appendix (1841), posted on IA L. Ritchie, The British world in the East; a guide... to India, 1847, vol.1, from IA J. Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: From Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen .. (1810), posted on IA Specific Topics J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur, NY : Review Books 1973, KMLA Lib. Call Sign 823.914 F245s Blair B. Kling, Partner in Empire, Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in India, Kolkata (1976) : KLM 2002, KMLA Lib. Call Sign 338.092 K65p Historical Dictionaries