The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858

by Daniel O'Connor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472507584
• ISBN13: 9781472507587
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"