03176nam 2200637z- 450 991083679630332120240308205223.01-78735-026-6(CKB)5680000000036140(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31139(EXLCZ)99568000000003614020202102d2018 |y eengurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe East India Company at Home 1757-1857UCL Press2018London :UCL Press,[2018]©20181 electronic resource (538 p.)1-78735-028-2 9781787350270 The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.HistorybicsscGeneral & world historybicsscRegional & national historybicsscEuropean historybicsscAsian historybicsscHistory of other landsbicsscModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900bicsscempireeast india companyasiabritainEnglish country houseHistoryGeneral & world historyRegional & national historyEuropean historyAsian historyHistory of other landsModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900745.4492Smith Kateedt596042Finn MargotedtSmith KateothFinn MargotothMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910836796303321The East India Company at Home 1757-18574131778UNINA