Author: John Phipps (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta.)
Publisher:
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Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Kartar Lalvani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472924843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.

Author: Indrajit Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136825517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions

Author: Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: India Office Library
Publisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Boyd Cothran
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Fox connected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand—with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples—and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world.

Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Anne Bulley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136833137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Concentrates on the period 1790-1833, especially the early nineteenth century when the Bombay merchant fleet was at its zenith, studying the ships, their trade and the men who owned or sailed in them. The picture is built up from a mass of details and references unearthed in the English East India Company's records and elsewhere, and includes contemporary experiences of sailing in these ships.

Author: Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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