Call of empire : from the Highlands to Hindostan / Alexander Charles Baillie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baillie, Alexander Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bailey family.

East India Company--History.

East India Company.

British--India--History--18th century.

British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston, [Canada] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Culloden's children

No great mischief

Eastward ho!

Baillie-ki-Paltan

Brothers in arms

Affairs of the heart

A council of incompetents

Command at Pondicherry

Disaster

Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam

Homeward bound

Brain fever in Baghdad

Estrangement

John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund

Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores

The resident at Lucknow

Dismissal

Retribution

Dissolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773552067

0773552065

9780773552074

0773552073

OCLC:

991530783