Call of empire : from the Highlands to Hindostan /
"From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Culloden's children
- No great mischief
- Eastward ho!
- Baillie-ki-Paltan
- Brothers in arms
- Affairs of the heart
- A council of incompetents
- Command at Pondicherry
- Disaster
- Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam
- Homeward bound
- Brain fever in Baghdad
- Estrangement
- John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund
- Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores
- The resident at Lucknow
- Dismissal
- Retribution
- Dissolution.