United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Smith
Distrusting his son, Richard meant his will to provide for the lives of his grandchildren, a reasonable expectation in view of the large fortune he had accumulated in the East India Company and elsewhere. But...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Lamb
Their father lost his primary job just as he was becoming too infirm (and disabled in one hand) to work as a butler in the Inner Temple. Their grandmother Mary Field died four days after...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Lamb
After a lifetime of financial anxiety, Charles had left to Mary, besides an annuity from the East India Company , an estate of something between £1,500 and £2,000, so she wanted for nothing. In June...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Griffith
A lifetime of financial struggle for EG and her husband was eased when her son made his fortune (or when as bibliographer James Raven puts it, a nabob son brought home his Indian wealth...
Wealth and Poverty Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ had by now earned some money from her writing, but because of her deteriorating health she may perhaps have found the security of Fletcher 's certain and handsome income
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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from the East India Company
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
On her return from India, JOH began work on an historical novel about eighteenth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata), and Anglo-Indian social life during the time of Warren Hastings and the East India Company . This...
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
The list of her literary earnings which AOK compiled in a copy of her Patriarchal Times, fourth edition, 1826, mentions some publications not yet identified. Apparently three works of 1803 brought her in seventeen...
Textual Features Ann Gomersall
Eleonora Sheldon writes her life story to an absent female friend. She was orphaned at ten after her proud, extravagant mother had bankrupted her father, and was educated by her father's ex-clerk, a good and...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
Here HM predicted that India would be lost to Britain if the state governed it directly rather than through the East India Company ,
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
459-460, 462
a change which came about only five months later.
Textual Features Elinor James
EJ 's tracts or broadsides (which word simply means a single-sheet publication) are not literature as usually defined. In some ways they are more like ephemera: notices, advertisements, or proclamations. Rather than titles they have...
Residence Caroline Chisholm
CC was joined in Australia by her husband when he retired from the East India Company .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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Reception Elizabeth Griffith
Reviews were highly complimentary. The Court Miscellany was typical in praising EG for that delicacy and softness which masculine women writers unfortunately scorn. The Gentleman's Magazine noted the adaption from Beaumarchais . The success of...
politics Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG involved herself with the cause of Azimullah Khan , who visited England seeking to have an East India Company pension restored to Nana Sahib , the adopted son of Indian prince Baji Rao II .
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
177-81
Occupation Florence Nightingale
Her work brought her into contact with top officials and, although she never visited the subcontinent, she corresponded with Sir Bartle Frere , Governor of Bombay; Sir John McNeill , surgeon with the East India Company

Timeline

24 September 1600: A meeting of eighty London merchants was...

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24 September 1600

A meeting of eighty London merchants was held as a consequence of which, in 1600, the East India Company received its charter as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies

1668: The East India Company acquired Bombay, the...

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1668

The East India Company acquired Bombay, the present-day Mumbai (which had come to the British crown in 1662 as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza ).

June 1757: Robert Clive's forces defeated the Nawab...

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June 1757

Robert Clive 's forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, consolidating UK power on the subcontinent.

12 August 1765: The East India Company took over the direct...

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12 August 1765

The East India Company took over the direct administration of revenues from Bengal. The young Mughal emperor, Shah Alam, dismissed his tax-collectors and gave their powers to officers of the company, in which...

After June 1773: Over protest from the House of Lords, the...

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After June 1773

Over protest from the House of Lords , the India Regulating Act enacted the first direct British government intervention in the administration of India.

28 November 1773: The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts,...

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28 November 1773

The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts, since the passing of the Tea Act; this provoked violent resistance including the Boston tea-party of 16 December.

1780-1785: During these years, East India Company records...

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1780-1785

During these years, East India Company records show that more than one-third of British men who made a will in India bequeathed everything to their Indian wives or among their mixed-race families. In fifty years...

By January 1786: Charles Wilkins' translation from Sanskrit...

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By January 1786

Charles Wilkins ' translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagvat Gita was published at the particular desire of Warren Hastings and by the authority of the court of directors of the East India Company .

1791: Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race)...

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1791

Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race) were precluded from employment as officers in the Civil, Military or Marine services of the [East India] Company .

1793: William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt...

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1793

William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt to get the East India Company 's statutes charter amended, to commit it to furthering the work of missionaries.

1801: Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography,...

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1801

Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Sarah Shade, which relates her life, marriages, and other experience in colonial India.

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.

1805-1830: During these years the proportion of British...

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1805-1830

During these years the proportion of British men who made their wills in India and left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families dropped from one in four to one in six, according to...

By 19 October 1814: The Episcopal Church in India was founded,...

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By 19 October 1814

The Episcopal Church in India was founded, with Thomas Fanshaw Middleton installed as the subcontinent's first Anglican bishop.

1816: John Reeves, a tea inspector with the East...

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1816

John Reeves , a tea inspector with the East India Company , sent the first wisteria plant from China to England.

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