Bureaucratic Culture in Early Colonial India: District Officials, Armed Forces, and Personal Interest under the East India Company, 1760-1830 (War and Society in South Asia)

This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century. It investigates the bureaucratic culture of early Company administrators, primarily at the district level, and the influence of that culture on the nature and scope of colonial government in India. Drawing on a host of archival material and secondary sources, James Lees details the power relationship between local officials and their superiors at Fort William in Calcutta, and examines the wider implications of that relationship for Indian society.\nThe book brings to the fore the manner in which the Company’s roots in India were established despite its limited military resources and lack of governmental experience. It underlines how the early colonial polity was shaped by European administrators’ attitudes towards personal and corporate reputation, financial gain, and military governance.\nA thoughtful intervention in understanding the impact of the Company’s government on Indian society, this volume will be of interest to researchers working within South Asian studies, British studies, administrative history, military history, and the history of colonialism.

Lees, James

Reference

Routledge India

Originally published in 1979, this book is a standard work on the evolution of rigging, mast-making and sali-making. It is a comprehensive study on the subject. It was compiled over some ten years, from information obtained from contemporary manuscripts, books and models in the archives of the National Maritime Museum.

The masting and rigging of English ships of war, 1625-1860

History

Military

Conway Maritime Press

This heavily illustrated reference is a treasure house of facts and figures with pages of tabular data providing specific dimensions on masts, rigging, and spars.

The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860

Europe

Naval Inst Pr

Dana's Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise On Practical Seamship, With Plates; a Dictionary of Sea Terms; and the Customs and Usages of the ... Duties of Master and Mariners, and the Merc

Legare Street Press

This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century. It investigates the bureaucratic culture of early Company administrators, primarily at the district level, and the influence of that culture on the nature and scope of colonial government in India. Drawing on a host of archival material and secondary sources, James Lees details the power relationship between local officials and their superiors at Fort William in Calcutta, and examines the wider implications of that relationship for Indian society. The book brings to the fore the manner in which the Company’s roots in India were established despite its limited military resources and lack of governmental experience. It underlines how the early colonial polity was shaped by European administrators’ attitudes towards personal and corporate reputation, financial gain, and military governance. A thoughtful intervention in understanding the impact of the Company’s government on Indian society, this volume will be of interest to researchers working within South Asian studies, British studies, administrative history, military history, and the history of colonialism.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Dana's Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise On Practical Seamship, with Plates ; a Dictionary of Sea Terms ; and the Customs and Usages of the ... Duties of Master and Mariners, and the Merc

Nabu Press

Lees' Guide to the Game of Draughts (Classic Reprint)

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Forgotten Books

Physics In 50 Milestone Moments

(physics Writer)

Metro_Books

You’ll feel like a genius after reading this collection of amazing physics facts. In Who Knew? Physics, you’ll learn the mind-blowing answers to questions about the way our universe works. They might be questions you have always wanted to ask, or maybe ones that you have never considered until now. But they will all leave you saying, “Who knew?” So if you’re bursting to know where the sky becomes space, or if a butterfly could really cause a tornado, this is the book for you. These pages are packed with information, and each chapter concludes with a quiz to test your knowledge so that you will be able to dazzle your friends and family with some incredible insights.

Who Knew? Physics

Portable Press

The worrying fact of a genuine Qaballa in English was first put to the occult reading public in 1979, in the Editorial of the final issue of Ray Sherwin’s periodical The New Equinox. The “order & value of the English Alphabet,” predicted in Liber AL vel Legis, had been obtained in the English Midlands by a magickian named James Lees in November 1976, and with the members of his occult group he had researched, experimented, and proved the new system to the point where the first conclusions and propositions could be shared. Lees took over the publication of The New Equinox with the subtitle “British Journal of Magick” and published several articles about the English Qaballa in 1980-81, in five issues. In the 1980’s occultism was a basis for an undercover kind of lifestyle without fashionable accessories, a far cry from the present climate of academic indulgence and establishment-led tolerance, and only just emerging from the shadow cast by the Golden Dawn and the “Great Revival” to formulate new answers to the old questions. English Qaballa has not only withstood the tests of Time, but expanded from the first hypotheses into a complete coherent and harmonious initiatory system of alpha-numeric symbol correspondences, a viable alternative to the non-English systems which have dominated occult publication for decades. The reproduction of its advent and early development should therefore be of interest to a new generation of enquiring minds as well as to those who may be renewing an old familiarity. 

The New Equinox: The British Journal of Magick

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Hadean Press Limited

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