'British export interests in Bengal and imperial expansion in to South East Asia, 1780 to 1824. The origins of the Straits Settlements' in B Ingham & C Simmons (eds), Development Studies and Colonial Policy
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- Author(s) Webster, Anthony
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1987
- Pages pp138-74
- Publisher Frank Cass
- Place Published London
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Deals with the evolution of British commercial organisation in Bengal under the East India Co as the latter sought to establish an export economy which came to influence imperial policy in South East Asia, notably the foundation of Singapore in 1819