Title Call of empire : from the Highlands to Hindostan / Alexander Charles Baillie

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Culloden's children -- No great mischief -- Eastward ho! -- Baillie-ki-Paltan -- Brothers in arms -- Affairs of the heart -- A council of incompetents -- Command at Pondicherry -- Disaster -- Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam -- Homeward bound -- Brain fever in Baghdad -- Estrangement -- John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund -- Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores -- The resident at Lucknow -- Dismissal -- Retribution -- Dissolution Summary "From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Bailey family. SUBJECT Bailey family fast Subject East India Company. SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject British -- India -- History -- 18th century British -- India -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. British British colonies Economic history Ethnic relations SUBJECT Great Britain -- India -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- India -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century India -- Economic conditions -- 18th century India -- Economic conditions -- 19th century India -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century India -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century India -- History, Military -- 18th century India -- History, Military -- 19th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century Subject India Genre/Form Electronic books History Military history Form Electronic book LC no. 2017479597 ISBN 9780773552067 0773552065 9780773552074 0773552073 0773551247 9780773551244

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