East India Company V5

by Henry Stevens

Overview

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume V, entitled Warfare, Expansion and Resistance, raises a number of questions connected with the Company's growing military role, and examines some of the implications of Indian resistance to the growth of its power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000557831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	933 KB

About the Author

Patrick Truck

Table of Contents

1 British expansion in India in the eighteenth century: A historical revision, 2 The Company's army, 1757-1798, 3 Officers of the East India Company's army in the days of Clive and Hastings 4 Pacification in the early British Raj, 1755-85, 5 'Cornwallis triumphant': War in India and the British public in the late eighteenth century 6 The role of the Indian army at the end of the eighteenth century 7 Western arms in maritime Asia in the early phases of expansion 8 Western imperialist armies in Asia 9 The end of an ancient regime: Colonial war in India, 1798-1818, 10 The British military-fiscal state and indigenous resistance: India 1750-1820