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The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858
Penelope Carson
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Description for The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858
Hardback.
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 grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's relationship with India, but the course of its religious policy has rarely been examined in any systematic way. The free exercise of religion, the ... Read more
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 grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's relationship with India, but the course of its religious policy has rarely been examined in any systematic way. The free exercise of religion, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837329
SKU
V9781843837329
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99-50
Reviews for The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858
[A]n impressive range of archival sources . . . about English religious politics of the 'sun never sets on the British Empire' school.
ANGLICAN & EPISCOPAL HISTORY
Carson has delivered a well-written and thoroughly researched monograph that will be a welcome addition to upper-division and graduate courses on British India . . . [and] to imperial and religious ... Read more
ANGLICAN & EPISCOPAL HISTORY
Carson has delivered a well-written and thoroughly researched monograph that will be a welcome addition to upper-division and graduate courses on British India . . . [and] to imperial and religious ... Read more