Author: John Williams (Captain.)
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: John Williams
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429944285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book of the Year A Guardian Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy from Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium is “pouring into the market like monsoon flood.” From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh’s Flood of Fire charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history.

Author: John Williams (Captain, Royal Army.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1348

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Author: J. Harrington
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230117503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power.

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351584529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.