Harlow / Carter Archives of Empire

Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8504-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 830 Seiten

Reihe: Archives of empire

A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in the Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harlow, Barbara

Carter, Mia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xix

General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism xxi

Volume Introduction: From the Company to the Canal 1

I. COMPANY TO CANAL, 1757-1869

INTRODUCTION: Adventure Capitalism: Mercantilism, Militarism, and the British East India Company 13

Chronology of Events 16

List of the Governors and Governors-General of India 17

List of the Newabs of Bengal 18

India under Cornwallis (1792) [map] 19

India under Wellesley (1799) [map] 19

India under Hastings (1832) [map] 20

India under Dalhousie (1856) [map] 20

G.A. (George Alfred) Henty, Excerpt from With Clive in India (n.d.) 21

“Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-ul-Dowlah and the Company, 12 August 1765” 25

Anonymous, An Inquiry into the Rights of the East India Company of Making War and Peace (1772) 27

East India Company Act, 1773 31

James Mill, “The Constitution of the East India Company” (1817) 39

James Mill, Letter to Durmont (1819) 47

John Stuart Mill. Excerpt from Autobiography (1873) 48

Government of India Act, 1833 49

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Lord Clive” (1840) 59

Samuel Lucas, “The Spoliation of Oude” (1857) 72

Sir Arthur Wellesley, “Memorandum on Marquess Wellesley’s Government of India” (1806) 81

II. ORIENTAL DEPOTISM

INTRODUCTON: Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies 89

Baron de Montesquieu, “Distinctive Properties of a Despotic Government” (1746) 92

Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpts from Persian Letters (1721) 92

Adam Smith, “America and the East Indies” (1776) 95

Robert Orme, “Of the Government and People of Indostan” (1782) 107

John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from The Principles of Political Economy (1848) 111

John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from “Considerations on Representative Government” (1861) 113

Karl Marx, “On Imperialism in India” (1853) 117

III. THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS

INTRODUCTION: Warren Hastings: Naughty Nabob or National Hero? 131

Warren Hastings, “Warren Hastings to the Court of General Directors, 11 November 1773” 135

Warren Hastings, Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the State of India (1786) 137

Edmund Burke, “Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788” 143

Westminister Hall during the trial of Warren Hastings (1788) [illustration] 146

Fanny Burney, Diary Selections (1788) 155

Edmund Burke, “From the Third Day of Edmund Burke’s Speech Opening the Impeachment, 18 February 1788” 160

Warren Hastings, “From the Address of Warren Hastings in His Defence, 2 June 1791” 163

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Warren Hastings” (1841) 166

IV. THE CASE OF TIPU SULTAN

INTRODUCTION: Tipu Sultan: Oriental Despot or National Hero? 171

G.A. Henty, Excerpts from The Tiger of Mysore (189?) 173

“Tippoo Sahib at the Lines of Travancore” (1789) [illustration] 174

Major Diram, “Treaties of Peace, and Review of the Consequences of War” (1793) 175

Selected Letters between Tipu and Company Governors-General, 1798-1799 180

Wilkie Collins, “Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam, 1799” (1869) 195

V. ORIENTALISM

INTRODUCTION: Orientalism: The East as a Career 203

Mary Shelley, Excerpts from Frankenstein (1813/1831) 206

Benjamin Disraeli, Excerpt from Sibyl, or the Two Nations (1845) 208

Definitions from the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary 209

G.W.F. Hegel, “India” (1822) 219

William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literatures of Asia” (1784) 223

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education” (1835) 227

Max Muller, “The Aryan Section” (1876) 239

VI. LAWS AND ORDERS

INTRODUCTION: Ordering “Chaos”: Administering the Law 249

Robert Orme, “Of the Laws and Justice of Indostan” (1782) 251

Sir William Jones, Preface to “Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances of Menu” (1794) 261

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Introductory Report upon the Indian Penal Code” (1837) 268

VII. THUGGEE/THAGI

INTRODUCTION: Decriminalizing the Landscape: Thugs and Poisoners 285

A thug “family tree” (1836) [illustration] 288

Thug depredations (1836) [map] 288

Thugs giving a demonstration of their method of strangulation (1855) [photo] 289

Captain William H. Sleeman, Excerpts from The Thugs or Phansigars of India: History of the Rise and Progress (1839) 297

Fanny Parks Parlby, “A Kutcherry or Kachahri” (1850) 307

Philip Meadows Taylor, “Thugs” (1877) 314

Philip Meadows Taylor, Excerpts from Confessions of a Thug (1837) 315

Captain William H. Sleeman, “Thug Approvers” (1833-1835?) 322

VIII. SUTTEE/SATI

INTRODUCTION: Sati/Suttee: Observances, Abolition, Observations 337

Colonel Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, “Suttee” [definition] (1903) 340

Lord William Bentinck, “Bentinck’s Minute on Sati, 8 November 1892” 350

Sati Regulation XVII, A.D. 1829 of the Bengal Code, 4 December 1829 361

“The Duties of a Faithful Widow,” from Digest of Hindi Law (n.d.) 364

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, “Petitions and Addresses on the Practice of Suttee (1818-1831)” 369

G.W.F. Hegel, On Sati (1822) 374

Charles Dickens, Death by Fire of Miss Havisham (1861) 375

Jules Verne, “Fogg Rescues a Sati” (1873) 377

Maspero Jingle [advertisement for Maspero Egyptian cigarettes] 379

Ernest Renan, On Suttee (1893) 380

Flora Annie Steel, “The Reformer’s Wife” (1933) 381

IX. THE INDIAN UPRISING/SEPOY MUTINY 1857-1858

INTRODUCTION: The “Asiatic Mystery”: The Sepoy Mutiny, Rebellion, or Revolt 391

Chronology of Events 396

Rulers and Rebels: Some Major Figures 397

Excerpts from The Who’s Who of Indian Martyrs (1969-1973) 400

“Portrait of Nana Sahib” [illustration] 402

“Sepoys, 1757” (1890) [illustration] 406

“Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow, July 30, 1857” (n.d.) [illustration] 406

“The Asiatic Mystery. As Prepared by Sepoy D’Israeli” (1857) [illustration] 407

“Proclamation to the People of Oude on Its Annexati

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Harlow is Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.Mia Carter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. They are coeditors of Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook.