The East India Company and Army Reform, 1783-1798 |
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| Author:
| Callahan, Raymond |
| Series title: | Harvard Historical Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-73197-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Here is the first detailed study of the British government's late eighteenth-century attempt to reorganize the East India Company's army. Tracing the events from three points of view--those of the British government, the Company's government in Calcutta, and the officers of the Company's service--Callahan shows that the aspects of the Company's service which struck observers in London as inefficient and corrupt were, in the officers' view, precisely those things that made the Company's...
More DescriptionHere is the first detailed study of the British government's late eighteenth-century attempt to reorganize the East India Company's army. Tracing the events from three points of view--those of the British government, the Company's government in Calcutta, and the officers of the Company's service--Callahan shows that the aspects of the Company's service which struck observers in London as inefficient and corrupt were, in the officers' view, precisely those things that made the Company's service worth entering.