This book analyses the evolving grand strategy of the British East India Company in India between 1600, when the Company was formed, and 1784, when the British Government took control of the Company's political affairs. It shows why the Company became involved in the military an…
Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the nineteenth-century British Indian Raj was so different? Arising, initially, from the militant poli…
Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the nineteenth-century British Indian Raj was so different? Arising, initially, from the militant poli…