East India Company

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Mariana Starke	Her father, Richard Starke , a reader with the East India Company , had been deputy director of Fort St George at Madras, then of Fort St David at Cuddalore, where he was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Anne Barker	George Barker was ordered back to Calcutta almost as soon as the couple had reached Simla. (The switch of British power in India, from the East India Company to the Crown, was causing re-organization...
Residence	Charlotte Lennox	All her life CL moved frequently from one lodging to another (lodging which often consisted of a room in someone else's house). During the productive 1750s she moved house at least nine times, in or...
Textual Features	Eva Mary Bell	This follows the fortunes of George Thomas (1756-1802), an actual historical figure from Tipperary, who deserted from the British navy in Madras at the age of about fifteen and became a soldier of fortune or...
Textual Production	Catherine Marsh	CM marked with a pamphlet, England's Sins and India's Martyrs, the Day of Humiliation set aside by the British government for prayer and fasting in response to the Indian Rebellion (or Mutiny) against...
Travel	Frances Isabella Duberly	Five hundred volumes had been supplied by the East India Company for reading-matter for the soldiers. They took ten days to reach the Cape de Verde Islands, then on 17 November stopped briefly in...

Timeline

1769-70

Bengal suffered famine, exacerbated by compulsory purchase of British goods and the throwing out of work of local artisans. Its onset coincided with a serious threat to British power there by forces from the Sultanate...

15 July 1772

The East India Company , whose steady stream of wealth coming out of India had diminished in the face of famine and suppression of local industry, asked the Bank of England for a bailout loan £400,000.

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