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The East India Company, 1600-1857 Essays on Anglo-Indian connection
This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the English and various groups in South Asia between 1600 to 1857 and how these interactions transformed important features of both British and South Asian history. Rather than viewing the Company as an organizati
Biography
William A. Pettigrew is Reader, School of History at the University of Kent, UK. He was Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2007–9). He has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and a monograph entitled Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752 (2013).
Mahesh Gopalan is Assistant Professor, Department of History at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has published articles in edited volumes on the history of the Indian Ocean and on the Jesuit Missions. He was recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant in 2014 and is currently working on a monograph.