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

By Alan Tritton

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2020
ISBN
9781788318099, 9781788318105, 9781786736611
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (79111491 bytes)
Pages
\247
Time added
2023-05-22 11:24:54

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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, and the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie, an indirect ancestor of the Author, 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. Edmonstone was very much the somewhat diffident power behind the throne of successive Governor-Generals, including Lord Cornwallis Sir John Shore, Sir Richard Wellesley, Lord Minto and Lord Hastings and he, together with the somewhat over-reaching Baillie and others, predominantly Scottish and Irish, oversaw the transition of the Honourable Company from being a defensive business to a military Empire spanning the Sub-Continent by the time they left India in the years 1816 and 1818 respectively. Both men had Indian as well as European ladies, with whom they had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children and who, with one exception, were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by Margaret Baillie, the spinster sister of John Baillie. This Book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Illustration Acknowledgements Map Introduction Chapter 1 Setting the scene Chapter 2 Edmonstone’s family: His voyage to and arrival at Calcutta Chapter 3 Baillie’s family: His voyage to and arrival in Calcutta Chapter 4 Descriptions of late-eighteenth-century Calcutta Chapter 5 Marriages and mistresses Chapter 6 Baillie’s and Edmonstone’s bibis and their eight Scottish Indian children Chapter 7 Edmonstone’s early days in Calcutta Chapter 8 The Kennaway Embassy to Hyderabad Chapter 9 Sir John Shore, Governor General Chapter 10 Two missions to Lucknow Chapter 11 Baillie’s academic prowess: Sir Richard Wellesley, Governor General Chapter 12 Fort William College, Calcutta Chapter 13 The Treaty of Bassein: The Second Anglo-Mahratta War Chapter 14 The story of General De Boigne Chapter 15 The capture of Agra: The Second Anglo-Mahratta War continued Chapter 16 Bundelkhand Affairs Chapter 17 The Jhansi Treaty and Anupgiri’s death Chapter 18 The return of Lord Cornwallis, Holkar, the Vellore Mutiny Chapter 19 Sir George Barlow and the White Mutiny Chapter 20 Captain Baillie: Lucknow Resident Chapter 21 Lucknow Chapter 22 A very short history of Oudh Chapter 23 Captain Baillie’s Lucknow family Chapter 24 Two downfalls Chapter 25 The capture of Bourbon, Mauritius, Amboyna, the Dutch Spice Islands and Java Chapter 26 Lord Moira, Governor General, and the Oudh loans Chapter 27 Edmonstone leaves Calcutta: A summary of his Indian career Chapter 28 Colonel Baillie leaves India; His Early Death Appendix Glossary Further Reading Index Plates

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