East India Company, 1784-1834
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- Author(s) Philips, Cyril H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1961
- Pages 3rd ed; 374pp
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1940. Scholarly history of the Company during the period of its being relieved of its long held trading privileges and the simultaneous growth in its administrative functions in India. Focuses on the hitherto unpublished role in this of its London based 'home government'. Attempts to estimate the influence exerted by the home government on British policy in India; to assess the relative value and importance of the roles of the Board of Control and Courts of Directors and Proprietors; to determine the force and direction of pressure brought to bear on the British government of the day by East India interests in London. Prefaced by an account of the organisation of East India House in Leadenhall Street and of the Board of Control in Westminster. The focus of the book is the political context in which the Company operated.