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Scotland and the Indian Empire Alan Tritton

Scotland and the Indian Empire By Alan Tritton

Scotland and the Indian Empire by Alan Tritton

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Scotland and the Indian Empire: Politics, Scholarship and the Military in Making British India by Alan Tritton

This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged 30, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807. Both men had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children, 9 of whom were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by John's sister Margaret Baillie. This book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents.

About Alan Tritton

Alan Tritton was born in 1931 and educated at Eton College. In 1950-52 he was on active service in the Far East as a Commissioned Officer with his Regiment the Seaforth Highlanders, where he was severely wounded in action. In 1954, following a previous sub-Arctic expedition in 1949, he was appointed Station Leader of the South Orkneys Antarctic Station of the then Falkland Island Dependencies Survey - now the British Antarctic Survey - later on he was elected President of the Antarctic Club. He participated in a number of Polar and Himalayan expeditions including the British Trans-Arctic Expedition and the British Everest South West Face expedition in 1975. He was elected a Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society and later on a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society. Prior to that he established the Calcutta Tercentenary Trust, which restored and conserved the British and European heritage paintings in the possession of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta and was the President of the British Association of Cemeteries in South Asia. For his work in India, he was awarded the C.B.E. in 1999.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One: Setting the Scene Chapter Two: Edmonstone's Family - His Voyage to and Arrival at Calcutta Chapter Three: Baillie's Family - His Voyage to Arrival in Calcutta Chapter Four: Descriptions of Late 18th Century Calcutta Chapter Five: Marriages and Mistresses Chapter Six: Baillie's Bibi and His Four Scottish Indian Children/Edmonstone's Bibi and His Four Scottish Indian Children Chapter Seven: Edmonstone's Early Days in Calcutta Chapter Eight: The Kennaway Embassy to Hyderbad Chapter Nine: Sir John Shore Governor-General Chapter Ten: Two Missions to Lucknow Chapter Eleven: Baillie's Academic Prowess/ Sir Richard Wellesley Govenor-General Chapter Twelve: Fort William College, Calcutta Chapter Thirteen: Treaty of Bassein/The Second Anglo-Mahratta War Chapter Fourteen: The Story of General De Boigne Chapter Fifteen: The Capture of Agra/The Second Anglo-Mahratta War continued Chapter Sixteen: Captain Baillie Appointed Political Agent for Bundelkhand/Anupgiri Himmat Bahadur/Colonel Mieselback Chapter Seventeen: Baillie's Treat of Jhansi/Anupgiri's Jaidad Misuse/His Death Chapter Eighteen: The Return of Lord Cornwallis and his Death/General Lake's Settlement with Holkar/An Assasination Attempt Chapter Nineteen: Sir George Barlow Chapter Twenty: Captain Baillie's Appointment as Resident at Lucknow in 1807 and Associated Correspondance Chapter Twenty-One: Lucknow Chapter Twenty-Two: A Very Short History of Oudh Chapter Twenty-Three: Captain Baillie's Lucknow Family Chapter Twenty-Four: Captain Baillie's Tenure as Resident and his Downfall Chapter Twenty-Five: The Capture of Bourbon, Mauritius, Amboyna, The Dutch Spice Islands and Java Chapter Twenty-Six: Lord Moira Govenor-General/The Oudh Loans Chapter Twenty-Seven: Edmonstone Leaves Calcutta Chapter Twenty-Eight: Baillie Leaves Lucknow for Calcutta Appendices

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GOR010634770
9781788318099
1788318099
Scotland and the Indian Empire: Politics, Scholarship and the Military in Making British India by Alan Tritton
Alan Tritton
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20191212
232
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