An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India. This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company
William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers put forward a new interpretation of the role Europe’s overseas corporations played in early modern global history, reca
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth
Christians form the third largest religious community in India. How has this come about? There are many studies of separate groups: but there has so far been no
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. O