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Mar 8, 2021 · It centres on Neil Edmonstone, acting Governor-General of India and Chief Intelligence Officer of the East India Company, and John Baillie, political agent for Bundelkhand. Author Alan Tritton details precisely how they oversaw the company’s transition to a military empire by the 19th century.
May 11, 2021 · Colonel Colin Mackenzie and his Indian pandits Painting by Thomas Hickey (1816). Suggested identities of the persons from left to right are Dhurmia, a Jain pandit holding a palm-leaf manuscript, Cavelli Venkata Lechmiah, a Telugu Brahmin pandit, Colin.
- Hamish Macpherson
Traditionally, Scottish hegemony has been interpreted as a consequence of the influence of Henry Dundas, later Viscount Melville, in his key office as a commissioner of the Board of Control of the East India Company in 1784 and later as President of the EIC’s Board between 1793 and 1801.
Apr 2, 2015 · 12 The Scots were there in exceptional numbers because the Whig Government in London commenced using East India patronage to maintain political control of Scotland. The 1725 Shawfield riots over the new Malt tax roused great fear in Walpole, the new First Minister.
Mar 26, 2019 · In this lecture Sir Tom considers the role of Scots in India in administration, the military and trade with special reference to the period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
The greatest concentrations of Scots in India were to be found in either the Company's or the king's military forces. In 1772 in Bengal, the major British possession in India and for which particularly good records survive, out of some 4,250 Europeans employed by the Company there were about 250 civil servants, 800 officers and 3,200
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Jan 3, 2022 · James George Smith Neill (1810-57) was a Scottish military officer of the East India Company stationed in India during the time of the rebellion. Born in Dalry, Ayrshire, he was educated at the University of Glasgow before entering into the service of the British East India Company.
