1853 Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company; and Also an Appendix and Index I. Public

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Ordered to be printed 20th August 1853. Very scarce. Volume I - Public. A detailed record of the minutes of evidence on the affairs of the East India Company, an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. Formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. At its peak, it was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies. With extracts from the Report of the Committee. Includes commentary on the home government, local government, law, natives, ecclesiastical commitment, patronage, education, the press, the settlement of Europeans in India, and much more. Previously held in the Ministry of Education Reference Library.