Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858

Name: Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Daniel O'Connor

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The East India Company's merchants were called Adventurers because they ventured their money in the risky markets of the Spice Islands and the fabulously wealthy Mughal Empire. In another sense also, the Company's entire 250 years were an adventure, exciting and dangerous, and creating over time, by violence and corruption, an empire. Contrary to the common view, the Company always claimed a Christian identity, hence the chaplains, on their voyages and in their trading 'factories' and garrisons, to guard the morals and morale of their operations. This the chaplains did with varying conviction and success. Forbear of the multinational of today, the Company continues to fascinate, attracting a vast amount of study worldwide as an economic and political phenomenon, an instrument of development, patron of art, and locus of attention in the new-imperial and postcolonial literature. Virtually unnoticed hitherto alongside the seafarers, merchant-adventurers, soldiers and imperialists, and their Indian collaborators, was a succession of educated, mostly young men with a tricky assignment and a distinct angle on all that took place: the chaplains.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 176
Release Date:: 2013-04-25
Publication Date:: 2013-04-25
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1472507584
ISBN13:: 9781472507587
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 278 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 10 cm

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