Trade and Empire in Western India

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Pamela Nightingale

页数:284

出版时间:2007-12-03

价格:328.00元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521053242

This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in that part of India. The chief of these is that the reform of the East India Company's administration in the 1780s brought the policy of the Bombay presidency under the firm control of the governor-general in Bengal and of the Court of Directors and the Board of Control in London.