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The East India Company and religion, 1698-1858 /
This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Worlds of the East India Company ;
volume 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Christian company?
- The East India Company, Britain and India 1770-1790
- The 1790s: a time of crisis
- The pillar of fire moves forward: the advent of British missionaries 1793-1806
- The wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove: the Vellore Mutiny and the Pamphlet War 1806-1808
- Troubled years 1807-1812
- Battle lines drawn: missions, dissent and the Establishment
- The 1813 renewal of the Company's charter: the religious public takes on the Company
- A turbulent frontier: the Company and religion 1814-1828
- A new dawn? The era of Lord William Bentinck 1828-1835
- Between Scylla and Charibdis 1836-1858.