The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858

by Penelope Carson

An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.

This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837323
• ISBN13: 9781843837329
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.5"