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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to understand this transformation in—and decentering of—the modern state's authority, we consider the multiple sources of legal authority claimed by the East India Company (1600–1757) and the way in which it positioned its legal and political legitimacy in relation to multiple and often competing centers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 24–32.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Michael H. Fisher Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 -
Persian Professor in Britain: Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim
at the East India Company's College, 1826-44...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 404–419.
Published: 01 August 2022
... militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia. In police records, court transcripts, and legislative archives, pilgrims with links to Arabia accordingly began appearing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 December 2015
... small drawings, which are scanned and digitally altered. The article then focuses on The Last Post (2010), which marked a radical departure in the artist's animation practice. The Last Post deals with the history of colonial struggle and the legacy of the British East India Company in South and East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 515–527.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Purnima Dhavan This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. 1690 map of Bombay and Salsette. Sam Thornton, hydrographer, East India Company. Note the fishing stakes visible at the mouth of the harbor, above Bombay and below Coronja/Karanja village. Map accessible at https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-543499 .
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 625–630.
Published: 01 December 2014
... is predicated on the loss of political sovereignty of the subject population. Can an empire deprive a society and culture of its political sovereignty and independence and yet claim to be liberal? © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Julian Go British Empire Cambridge School East India Company...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 245–258.
Published: 01 August 2007
...? despite—orin perhapsmodern of—the growth because industrial continueto and warfare costly in embroiled perpetually apparently and deeply so become dominance, ofWestern notrise mentionto the capitalism, ofprecocious beginnings the to linked so Company,was which India East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 May 2022
... demonstrates that it was the concentrated violence of the Dutch and English East India companies that explains their commercial success. 6 Yet this history of commercial dominance in the early modern Indian Ocean is also a necessary precursor to the transformations of political economy that ensued...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 303–314.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of and diverse peoples coming under their rule. In
people from India living in Britain. These legal 1757 the East India Company’s army had gained
So
and moral debates had signifi cant consequences power over territory and population about three
Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... nineteenth century and the activities of a colonial European corporation, the British East India Company. Faced with its tenuous claim to sovereignty, the company built its ports in coastal India by incentivizing private property-making as a public good throughout the nineteenth century. Much of this ability...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 521–537.
Published: 01 August 2011
... (of the
Wilson, librarian to the East Indian Company East India Company) resolved, in 1842, “to
and Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the Univer- adopt measures for forming a Glossary of words Remaking
sity of Oxford, was explicitly compiled “under in current use in various parts of India, relat...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 131–141.
Published: 01 May 2004
... named Narottam Ramachandar Joshi, the of his ability. He is well informed about local
East India Company’s Broker at Muscat during matters and, having a large circle of friends at
c.1758–98.24 Britain’s last native agent in the Gulf Bushire, Busreh, & other ports in [the] Persian
region retired...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 135–147.
Published: 01 May 2024
... commercial networks spanning European empires. Dutch New Amsterdam was built interactively with Dutch Batavia. In 1773, the American Boston Tea Party emerged from the English East India Company's debts to the Crown, incurred for investments in Asia, 19 and finance capital in the “empire state” of New York...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 540–556.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Miles . Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2007 . Raman Bhavani . Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . Roberts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 618–625.
Published: 01 December 2014
... ( 2006 ): 125 – 46 . Ward Kerry . Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 618 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 34:3 • 2014
Patterns of Empire...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... 2. The joint-stock East India Company's role in the urban areas was not merely as a trader and tax collector but very much as a land developer and speculator. This particular genealogy of the company remains undertheorized. 1. Schwartz and Seabrooke, “Varieties of Residential Capitalism,” 2...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 December 2010
...: The East India Companies and of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710 – 1780 (Leiden: Brill,
the Decline of the Caravan Trade (Chicago: University 1995); Gommans, Indian Frontiers and High Roads to
of Chicago Press, 1974). Recent studies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 20–26.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., to enter the business.
assumed the commercial character of Gujarat's Sunderdas and his father jointly owned the
coastal towns. The East India Company used family business and property, and they
the assistance of native traders and bankers. lived jointly-until Nulji Jetha...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 230–245.
Published: 01 August 2009
... culture had blos-
nealogy of the imagery of spinning, tracing its somed.17 The East India Company officers and
roots in early colonial paintings, specifically a their families based in Patna also generated a
set of paintings from the 1830s that depict the great deal of cultural activity during...
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