India Flashcards
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India - Key Themes
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- Missionaries/Religion
- Transplanted Communities
- Opportunities
- Soldiers
- Trade
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India - Historical Context
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- When; Mid 1700s, union granted access as to British Empire
- How many; Bengal, Scots 13% of European population 1720-80, BMH
- Who; “military, as civil servants, aboard East Indiamen, as physicians and also as free merchants.” BMH
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India - Trade
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- East India Company, 1600-1784, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone
- 300 free merchants by 1830, BMH
- Thomas Lipton, “become the largest company trading in tea by the late 19th century” BMH
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India - Missionaries/Religion
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- Aeneas Falcon Williams and Clare Anne Rendall, Church of Scotland missionaries, Kalimpong, West Bengal, Buettner
- Committee for Scottish School, The Bombay Scottish School, Buettner
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India - Soldiers
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- 250/800 officers, Bengal, 1770s, BMH
- 1720-80, 2,000 minimum via military, BMH
- Sir Hector Munro of Novar, Battle of Baksar, 1764, defeated emperor Shah Alam II and Nawabs of Bengal, key in British annexation of Bengal, BMH
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India - Transplanted Communities
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- Over 300, St Andrews Day Dinner, Calcutta 1911, Bombay & Madras Societies
- “the small number of Indian elites” “long been key British collaborators” Buettner
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India - Opportunities
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- Indian Medical Service, 919/3,023, 1804-96, Buettner
- Alexander Campbell of Ardchattan, junior merchant of Madras, due to family connections, returned favour for number of other relatives, BMH
