From the East India Company to the Suez Canal / edited by Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Mia.

Harlow, Barbara, 1948-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Archives of Empire ; v. 1.

Archives of Empire ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--History--Sources.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (831 p.)

Other Title:

From the East India Company to the Suez Canal

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in the Middle East.

Contents:

General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism

Volume Introduction: From the Company to the Canal

I. Company to Canal, 1757-1869

Introduction: Adventure Capitalism: Mercantilism, Militarism, and the British East India Company

Chronology of Events

List of the Governors and Governors-General of India

List of the Newabs of Bengal

India under Cornwallis (1792)

India under Wellesley (1799)

India under Hastings (1832)

India under Dalhousie (1856)

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, Excerpt from With Clive in India (n.d.)

Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-ul-Dowlah and the Company, 12 August 1765

Anonymous, An Inquiry into the Rights of the East India Company of Making War and Peace (1772)

East India Company Act, 1773

James Mill, The Constitution of the East India Company (1817)

James Mill, Letter to Durmont (1819)

John Stuart Mill. Excerpt from Autobiography (1873)

Government of India Act, 1833

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Speech, Delivered in the House of Commons on the 10th of July, 1833

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Clive (1840)

Samuel Lucas, The Spoliation of Oude (1857)

Sir Arthur Wellesley, Memorandum on Marquess Wellesley's Government of India (1806)

II. Oriental Despotism

Introduction: Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies

Baron de Montesquieu, Distinctive Properties of a Despotic Government (1746)

Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpts from Persian Letters (1721)

Adam Smith, America and the East Indies (1776)

Robert Orme, Of the Government and People of Indostan (1782)

John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from The Principles of Political Economy (1848)

John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from Considerations on Representative Government (1861)

Karl Marx, On Imperialism in India (1853)

III. The impeachment of Warren Hastings

Introduction: Warren Hastings: Naughty Nabob or National Hero?

Warren Hastings, Warren Hastings to the Court of General Directors, 11 November 1773

Warren Hastings, Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the State of India (1786)

Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788

Westminster Hall during the trial of Warren Hastings (1788)

Fanny Burney, Diary Selections (1788)

Edmund Burke, From the Third Day of Edmund Burke's Speech Opening the Impeachment, 18 February 1788

Warren Hastings, From the Address of Warren Hastings in His Defence, 2 June 1791

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings (1841)

IV. The case of Tipu Sultan

Introduction: Tipu Sultan: Oriental Despot or National Hero?

G. A. Henty, Excerpts from The Tiger of Mysore (189?)

Tippoo Sahib at the Lines of Travancore (1789)

Major Diram, Treaties of Peace, and Review of the Consequences of the War (1793)

Selected Letters between Tipu and Company Governors-General, 1798-1799

Wilkie Collins, Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam, 1799 (1869)

V. Orientalism

Introduction: Orientalism: The East as a Career

Mary Shelley, Excerpts from Frankenstein (1813/1831)

Benjamin Disraeli, Excerpt from Sibyl, or the Two Nations (1845)

Definitions from the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary

G. W. F. Hegel, India (1822)

William Jones, A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literatures of Asia (1784)

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1835)

Max Muller, The Aryan Section (1876)

VI. Laws and Orders

Introduction: Ordering Chaos: Administering the Law

Robert Orme, Of the Laws and Justice of Indostan (1782)

Sir William Jones, Preface to Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances of Menu (1794)

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Introductory Report upon the Indian Penal Code (1837)

VII. Thuggee/Thagi

Introduction: Decriminalizing the Landscape: Thugs and Poisoners

A thug family tree (1836)

Thug depradations (1836)

Thugs giving a demonstration of their method of strangulation (1855)

Captain William H. Sleeman, The Ramaseeana, or Vocabulary of the Thug Language (1839)

Captain William H. Sleeman, Excerpts from The Thugs or Phansigars of India: History of the Rise and Progress (1839)

Fanny Parks Parlby, A Kutcherry or Kachahri (1850)

Philip Meadows Taylor, Thugs (1877)

Philip Meadows Taylor, Excerpts from Confessions of a Thug (1837)

Captain William H. Sleeman, Thug Approvers (1833-1835?)

VIII. Suttee/Sati

Introduction: Sati/Suttee: Observances, Abolition, Observations

Colonel Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Suttee (1903)

Lord William Bentinck, Bentinck's Minute on Sati, 8 November 1892

Sati Regulation XVII, a.d. 1829 of the Bengal Code, 4 December 1829

The Duties of a Faithful Widow, from Digest of Hindi Law (n.d.)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Petitions and Addresses on the Practice of Suttee (1818-1831)

G. W. F. Hegel, On Sati (1822)

Charles Dickens, Death by Fire of Miss Havisham (1861)

Jules Verne, Fogg Rescues a Sati (1873)

Maspero Jingle

Ernest Renan, On Suttee (1893)

Flora Annie Steel, The Reformer's Wife (1933)

IX. The Indian uprising / Sepoy mutiny 1857-1858

Introduction: The Asiatic Mystery: The Sepoy Mutiny, Rebellion, or Revolt

Rulers and Rebels: Some Major Figures

Excerpts from The Who's Who of Indian Martyrs (1969-1973)

Portrait of Nana Sahib

Sepoys, 1757 (1890)

Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow, July 30, 1857 (n. d.)

The Asiatic Mystery. As Prepared by Sepoy D'Israeli (1857)

Proclamation to the People of Oude on Its Annexation. February 1856

Sir Henry Lawrence's Essay of 1843, Forecasting the Events of 1857

Rani Lakshmi Bai (The Rani of Jhansi), Letters of Rani Lakshmi Bai (1853-1854)

Title page from The Queen's Desire (1893)

Hume Nisbet, Preface and Excerpt from The Queen's Desire: A Romance of the Indian Mutiny (1893)

The Ranee's Death (1893)

The King of Oude's Manifesto from the Delhi Gazette, 29 September 1857

Karl Marx, The Revolt in India, The Indian Question, British Incomes in India, and The Annexation of Oude (1857-1858)

Colonel C. Chester, Final Orders to the Musketry Schools (1857)

Selected Documents from John William Kaye's The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (1880), including The Chupatties and The Bone-Dust Story

Act. No. XIV of 1857 (on the punishment of soldiers under Company rule) (1880)

Charles Ball, Summary Justice (n.d.)

Justice (1857)

Selected Correspondence of Queen Victoria (1857)

Anonymous, How to Make an Indian Pickle (1857)

The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger (1857)

Bholanauth-Chunder (attributed to), The Punishment of Allahabad (1857)

Pity for the Poor Sepoys! (1857)

Reverend J. Johnson Walsh, Excerpts from A Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission and Her Martyred Missionaries: With Some Remarks on the Mutiny in India (1859)

The Execution of John Company (1857)

Anonymous, England's Great Mission to India (1879)

Henry Gilbert, Doubts and Forebodings (n.d.)

Henry Gilbert, What the Native Thought (n.d.)

Rudyard Kipling, The Grave of the Hundred Head (1899)

Alfred Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow (1879)

Alfred Tennyson, English War-Song (n.d.)

M. B. Synge, The Indian Mutiny (1908)

X. The Suez Canal: the gala opening

Introduction: Spectacular Suez: The Opening Gala of the Suez Canal

Opening of the Suez Canal at Port Said: Presence of the Imperial and Royal Visitors (1869)

Opening of the Suez Canal: The Procession of Ships in the Canal (1869)

Selected Correspondence of Giuseppe Verdi (1870)

Baron Samuel Selig de Kusel, Excerpt from An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt 1863 to 1887 (1915)

XI. The Suez Canal: the builder, Ferdinand de Lesseps

Introduction: The Master Builder and His Designs: Ferdinand De Lesseps

Ferdinand De Lesseps Bestrides His Canal (n.d.)

Ferdinand De Lesseps, Inquiry into the Opinions of the Commercial Classes of Great Britain on the Suez Ship Canal (1857)

Ferdinand De Lesseps, Excerpts from The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress in 1854-56 (1876)

Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, Excerpt from From Pharaoh to Fellah (1888)

XII. The Suez Canal: the canal and its consequences

Introduction: The Battlefield of the Future: The Canal and Its Consequences

A Stretch of the Canal Is Hollowed Out / The Men Who Have Hollowed It (n.d.)

From the Great Pyramid. (A Bird's-Eye View of the Canal and Its Consequences.) (1869)

Anonymous, Latest-From the Sphinx (1869)

Anonymous, The Sultan's Complaint (1869)

Ferdinand De Lesseps, Report to His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt on the Fellah Workmen to be Employed by the International Suez Canal Company (1856)

The Official Firman of Concession Granted by the Viceroy of Egypt Mohamed Said, to Ferdinand De Lesseps, 1854

Charter of Concession and Book of Charges for the Construction and Working of the Suez Grand Maritime Canal and Dependencies (1856)

Agreement of February 22, 1866, Determining the Final Terms as Ratified by the Sublime Porte

Edward Dicey, Why Not Purchase the Suez Canal? (1883)

Charles Royle, De Lesseps and the Canal (1900)

D. A. Cameron, The Suez Canal (1898)

Mose in Egitto! (1875)

Lord Herbert Edward Cecil, A Day on the Suez Canal (1905) (1921)

The Lion's Share (1876)

XIII. The Arabi Uprising

Introduction: The Arabi Uprising: Egypt for the Egyptians or British Egypt

Important Figures

Hold On! (1882)

The Neddy of the Nile (1882)

Bob McGee, De War in Egypt (1882)

W. E. Gladstone, Aggression on Egypt and Freedom in the East (1887)

Lord Cromer, The Mutiny of the Egyptian Army (1908)

Arabi's Appeal to Gladstone (1882)

Rioters at Alexandria (1882)

The Crisis in Egypt (1882)

E. M. Forster, The Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)

Wilfred Scawen Blunt, The Arabi Trial (1907)

The Sublime-Super! (1882)

Lady Gregory, Arabi and His Household (1882)

XIV. Pilgrims, travelers, and tourists

Introduction: Holy Lands and Secular Agendas

Lady Duff Gordon, Cairo Is the Real Arabian Nights (1865)

Richard F. Burton, Suez (1855)

Stanley Lane-Poole, The Two Cities (1902)

Charles M. Doughty, Excerpt from Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888)

Itineraries from Programme of Arrangements for Visiting Egypt, the Nile, Sudan, Palestine, and Syria (1929-1930)

Egyptian Native Types (n.d.)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613064684

9781283064682

1283064685

9780822385042

082238504X

OCLC:

191855719