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Author Mukherjee, Ramkrishna.

Title The rise and fall of the East India Company : a sociological appraisal / by Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Published New York : Monthly Review Press, 21 cm

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Description xviii, 445 pages : 3 maps ; 21 cm
Contents Contents note continued: Notes and References -- ch. 5 Company As The Ruler -- 1.Ruination of Artisans -- 2.Liquidation of Traders -- 3.Reforms or Retrogression? -- 4.Disintegration of Indian Economy -- 5."Well-being" of the People -- 6."Economic Drain" from India -- 7.Estate-Farming in Bengal -- 8.Extraction from Northern India -- 9.Usury and Estate-Farming in South India -- 10.India---"Agricultural Farm of England" -- 11.The "particular kind of melancholy" under Company's Rule -- Notes and References -- ch. 6 The Last Stage -- 1.Company and Parliamentary Influence -- 2.Company and the British Industrialists -- 3.British Industrial Capital and "Reforms" in India -- 4."Regenerating" Mission of Britain in India -- 5."Finis der East India Co., Indien" -- Notes and References
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 English Society And The East India Company -- 1.The "New" England -- 2.Rise of the First Architects -- 3.Leitmotiv of the Architects -- 4.Fall of the First Architects -- Notes and References -- ch. 2 Company And The English Merchants -- 1.Birth of the Company -- 2.Struggle of the Have-not English Merchants -- 3.Interlopers -- 4.Company Re-constituted -- Notes and References -- ch. 3 Company And Its European Rivals -- 1.English-Portuguese Rivalry -- 2.English-Dutch Rivalry -- 3.English-French Rivalry -- 4.Company without Rivals -- Notes and References -- ch. 4 The Company And Indian Rulers -- 1.The Social Organism -- 2.Emergence of New Forces -- 3.India and England -- 4.Company in India in the 17th Century -- 5.Disintegration of Mughal Empire -- 6.Company and Collapse of Mughal Power -- 7.Conquest of Bengal -- 8.Control of Upper Gangetic Plain -- 9.Anglo-Mysore Wars -- 10.Anglo-Maratha Wars -- 11.Remaining Indian Powers --
Analysis Great Britain Foreign trade with India Companies: East India Company, to 1858
India Political events Role of East India Company, to 1858
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject East India Company -- History.
East India Company.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115233 -- India http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125948 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
India -- History -- 1526-1765. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064913
LC no. 73090082
ISBN 0853453152