The English East India Company at the height of Mughal expansion : a soldier's diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with related documents / edited with an introduction by Margaret R. Hunt, Uppsala University, and Philip J. Stern, Duke University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunt, Margaret R., 1953- editor, author of introduction.

Stern, Philip J., editor, author of introduction.

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

The Bedford series in history and culture

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

East India Company--History--17th century--Sources.

Hilton, James, active 1686-1689--Diaries.

East India Company.

History.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Sources.

India.

Genre:

Sources.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford / St. Martin's, [2016]

Summary:

Margaret R. Hunt (Ph.D., New York University) is professor of history at Uppsala University (Sweden). She is the author of several books including Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe. She has published widely on legal history, military history, gender history, and the history of ideas of race in the British Empire. She is currently working on a "biography" of a late seventeenth-century English East India Company ship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction: The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective 1

The New Global History 4

Mughal Expansion and the English Acquisition of Bombay 5

The First Anglo-Mughal War in Regional and Global Context 9

The Siege of Bombay 13

Making Peace and the Emperor's Farman 16

The Outcry in England and the Campaign to Abolish the East India Company 19

James Hilton and His Diary 21

Conclusion 22

Part 2 The Siege of Bombay: A Soldier's Diary 26

James Hilton, Diary of the Siege of Bombay, February 15, 1689, to June 22, 1690 27

Part 3 Related Documents 106

1 The East India Company on the West Coast of India 107

1 John Ovington, The Great Rival to Bombay: The Port of Surat and Indian Ocean Trade, 1689 107

2 Charter Granted by Charles II to the East India Company, Confirming and Extending Their Former Charters, April 3, 1661 111

3 Letters Patent from Charles II for the Port and Island of Bombay, March 27, 1669 114

4 Letters Patent from James II Extending Jurisdiction of Prize Courts in the East Indies, April 12, 1686 116

2 Mughal Expansion under the Emperor Aurangzeb 119

5 Ishwar das Nagar, Modes of Siege Warfare-and Restoring Order Afterward, 1688 119

6 Capture of Orchha, 1635 123

7 The Emperor Aurangzeb at a Chishti Shrine, 1670s 125

3 Sidi Yakut Khan and Rising Tension in Bombay 126

8 Khafi Khan, On Sidi Yakut, 1670s-1680s 126

9 Murder in the Bazaar: Clashes between Englishmen and the Sidi's Soldiers, 1683 130

4 Company Plans for War 132

10 East India Company, A Fleet of Warlike Ships: Secret Instructions for War, March and April 1686 132

11 Bartholomew Harris and Samuel Annesley, Diplomatic Overtures between Surat and the Company, 1687 136

12 East India Company, Letter to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, 1688 139

5 Other Experiences of the Siege 142

13 Alexander Hamilton, A More Critical View of the Siege, 1689-1690 142

14 The Governor and Council of Bombay, Letter to London about the Siege, 1689 147

15 John Stevens, alias Abd al-Allah, Conversion to Islam while at the Sidi's Camp, 1689 149

16 The Quest for Peace 154

16 The Company's Response to Mukhtiar Khan, A Peace Proposal from Surat, 1689 154

17 Peace Negotiations between the Company and the Mughals, July 1689 to February 1690 156

18 The Emperor Aurangzeb, Declaring a Peace? The Imperial Farman, 1690 162

19 John Vauxe, An East India Company Hostage Reflects Back upon the Siege, 1691 164

7 The Company's War: Defenders, Critics, Petitioners 166

20 Josiah Child, In Defense of the Company's War, 1689 166

21 The Great Oppressions and Injuries Which the Managers of the East India Company Have Acted on the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of Their Fellow Subjects and Injustice Done to the Natives in Sundry Parts of India, 1691 168

22 Edith Holloway and Others, A Petition to the House of Commons by Widows of East India Company Sailors, 1693 171

23 Sheikh Mahmud Hosson, Mulla Abdul Ghafur, and Others, Surat Merchants, Clerics, and Port Officials Petition against the East India Company, 1700 173

8 The Legacy and Memory of the Siege of Bombay 175

24 Khafi Khan, English Pirate Attacks and Continuing Tensions between Bombay and the Mughal Empire, 1694 175

25 John Burnell, Bombay Twenty Years after the Siege, 1710 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.

Contains James Hilton's diary, with 25 related documents that were translated into English from various languages.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Contains:

Container of: Hilton, James, active 1686-1689. Diary of the siege of Bombay.

ISBN:

1457664011

9781457664014

OCLC:

913924539