Administration and Finance of the East India Company

Administration and Finance of the East India Company
Author: Bhimrao R Ambedkar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781080742134

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, which was formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China.Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India.

Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India

Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India
Author: John F. Richards
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 104023447X

From the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries the Mughal empire was the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent. Contrary to what is sometimes suggested, John Richards argues that this centralised state was dynamic and skillfully run. The studies here consider its links with the wider early modern world, and focus on three related aspects of its history. The first concerns the nature of imperial authority, in terms both of the dynastic ideology created by Akbar and his successors, and the extent to which this authority could be enforced in the countryside. The second aspect is that of fiscal and monetary policy and administration: how did the Mughals collect, track and expend their vast revenues, and what effects did this have? Finally, the author asks why the system could not cope with the changes it had helped engender, and what were the weaknesses and pressures that led to the breakup of the empire in the first decades of the 18th century. De la moitié du 16e siècle au début du 18e, l’empire moghol était le pouvoir dominant du sous-continent indien. Contrairement à ce qui peut parfois être suggéré, John Richards soutient que cet état centralisé était dynamique et adroitement mené. Les études examinent ses liens avec le reste du monde moderne et se concentrent sur trois aspects de son histoire. Le premier concerne la nature de l’autorité impériale, en termes d’idéologie dynastique, telle qu’elle avait été créée par Akbar et ses successeurs et du point jusqu’auquel cette autorité pouvait être imposée dans les milieux ruraux. Le second aspect est celui de l’administration et de la politique fiscale et monétaire: comment les Moghols faisaient-ils pour collecter, retrouver et dépenser leurs vastes revenus et quel était l’effet d’une telle politique? Enfin, l’auteur cherche à savoir pourquoi ce système n’arrivait pas à faire face aux changements qu’il avait contribué à engendrer et quelles avaient été

How the East Was Won

How the East Was Won
Author: Andrew Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009064193

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

A History of Corporate Finance

A History of Corporate Finance
Author: Jonathan Barron Baskin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521655361

An overview of the role of institutions and organisations in the development of corporate finance.

The Rise of Fiscal States

The Rise of Fiscal States
Author: Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107013518

Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

The Anarchy

The Anarchy
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526634015

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Author: Shyam Narain
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1685389244

This book, which provides a unique opportunity to debate and analyse Dr. Ambedkar's contribution to nation-building, will pique the curiosity of individuals from all walks of life. The book also includes his social, political and educational reforms, as well as his role in the country's economic growth and modernisation approach and its execution. His writings and journalism's contribution to the emancipation from dual slavery of socially outcast people and tripartite slavery of Indian women from the centuries past has been included. He said that ours is a war; not for wealth or power, but freedom and the reclaiming of human uniqueness. He fought for all aspects of social justice. Social justice is the recognition of a large number of people without depriving them of their legal rights. He discovered that Buddhism is suitable for socially deprived classes and outcast people for their social honour and liberation from the slavery of the caste system in India.