Golly. We witness Sam's part in subjecting India to British rule.
In the Charter Act from April 1661, Charles II affirmed and extended the East India Company's state-like rights in India, preparing the later subjection of the subcontinent to British rule.
Here, in December 1661, a contract is signed between the EIC and the King. And it's our Sam who signs the deal in the King's name! Wow.
Sadly I can't find any details on the December '61 contract.
#Pepys #EastIndiaCompany
**British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**
Rose Akcan
_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons
"Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories" is a sweeping and jarring work of how opium became an insidious capitalistic tool to generate wealth for the British Empire and other Western powers at the expense of an epidemic of addiction in China and the impoverishment of millions of farmers in India. #History #EastIndiaCompany #BritishIndia #Dutch #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/454/smoke-and-ashes-opiums-hidden-histories/
"This paper studies the constitutive role of cartography apropos law, territory, and social order, in a specific historical context, by examining the crucial political role played by the British East India Company's cartographic practices and maps in aspiring and imagining the transplantation and establishment of English sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent."
Suresh, S. (2024) ‘The Cartojuridism of the British East India Company’, Law and History Review, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000051.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #SouthAsia #Asia #Europe #EastIndiaCompany #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
Centered around the story of the Sassoons, a Jewish family in Ottoman Baghdad that spanned two continents, this book is not only a family story but also a story of global trade and global capitalism. #History #OttomanEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #Sassoon #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/400/the-global-merchants-the-enterprise-and-extravagan/
The Battle of Sobraon on 10 February 1846 was the last of four major victories for the British East India Company (EIC) against the Sikh Empire during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2136/battle-of-sobraon/ #History #Anglo-SikhWars #BattleofSobraon #EastIndiaCompany
Michael D. Bennett (2022) Caribbean plantation economies as colonial models: The case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the late seventeenth century, Atlantic Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2034569 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Caribbean #Atlantic #EastIndiaCompany #Barbados #C17th #17thCentury #England #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
The Indian Princely States (aka Native States or Princely India) were those states in the Indian subcontinent the British did not conquer but which were typically bound by treaty first to the East India Company and then to the British Crown. https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Princely_States/ #History #BritishRaj #EastIndiaCompany #India
In the early 17th century, the Dutch and English East India Companies turned their eyes towards India, as part of their grand schemes to develop extensive trade networks across the Indian and China Seas. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2048/the-english-and-dutch-east-india-companies-invasio/ #History #BritishEastIndiaCompany #DutchEastIndiaCompany #EastIndiaCompany
@politico
Perhaps a little late in the day, but welcome nevertheless?
#WagnerGroup, the latter-day #EastIndiaCompany, #HudsonBayTradingCompany etc etc, all commercial companies which ended up ruling large land mases.
According to Dalrymple, corporate greed drove EIC’s ambitions in India. #History #India #EastIndiaCompany #Colonialism #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/366/the-anarchy-the-relentless-rise-of-the-east-india/
The Battle of Ferozeshah (aka Forezeshur) on 21-22 December 1845 was one of four major battles during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6) between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company (EIC). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2130/battle-of-ferozeshah/ #History #Anglo-SikhWars #EastIndiaCompany #Ferozeshah
Robert Clive (1725-1774), also known as 'Clive of India' and Baron Clive of Plassey, masterminded the expansion of the East India Company in India. https://www.worldhistory.org/Robert_Clive/ #History #Colonialism #EastIndiaCompany #India
The English East India Company (EIC or EEIC), later to become the British East India Company, was founded in 1600 as a trading company. https://www.worldhistory.org/East_India_Company/ #History #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #India
The Indian Princely States (aka Native States or Princely India) were those states in the Indian subcontinent the British did not conquer but which were typically bound by treaty first to the East India Company and then to the British Crown. https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Princely_States/ #History #BritishRaj #EastIndiaCompany #India
Wer meint, der Westen habe sich den #Wohlstand durch Fleiß erarbeitet und Menschen aus anderen Ländern seien nur Sozialschmarotzer, hört sich vielleicht Mal das heutige #Kalenderblatt im Deutschlandfunk an.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/17-03-1798-die-niederlaendische-ostindien-kompagnie-wird-verstaatlicht-dlf-4a6a8a6e-100.html
Gerade im Bezug auf die harte Asylpolitik der #Niederlande interessant. #refugeeeswelcome #Nederland #eastindiacompany
The Retreat from Kabul in 1842 was one of the most notorious disasters in the history of the British Empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2143/retreat-from-kabul-in-1842/ #History #EastIndiaCompany #FirstAnglo-AfghanWar
The Battle of Sobraon on 10 February 1846 was the last of four major victories for the British East India Company (EIC) against the Sikh Empire during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2136/battle-of-sobraon/ #History #Anglo-SikhWars #BattleofSobraon #EastIndiaCompany
The British East India Company (EIC) was founded as a trading company in 1600. Run by a board of directors in London, the company employed a private army, first to protect the trade it conducted in the Indian subcontinent and then to expand its territories as it rampantly colonised its competition. https://www.worldhistory.org/collection/168/the-history-of-the-east-india-company/ #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire #BritishIndia #History
