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India under Colonial Rule, 1752-1933

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Introduction

Power and Preachers comprises 6 diverse primary source collections which detail the political, economic, and spiritual realities of British colonial rule in India. The featured collections include records from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, from the establishment of the East India Company and the India Act to the emergence of Gandhi and the independence movement. Drawn from a diverse range of sources, the materials show the Raj through the eyes of commercial, military, and bureaucratic elites, as well as missionaries, labourers, and Indians themselves.

This series therefore provides students and researchers with a nuanced synopsis of British colonialism in India and India’s role in shaping modern Britain.

Dates Covered

1752-1933

Contributors

Bodleian Library
India Office Library (c/o British Library)
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Wales
People's History Museum

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View document: Letter Books of General Letters to Europe and Within India, 1756–1759.

Licensed to access Letter Books of General Letters to Europe and Within India, 1756–1759

Contributor Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Country letter books, 1765-1767.

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Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Europe letter book, 1765.

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Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Letter books of letters from England to various individuals, 1767-1774.

Licensed to access Letter books of letters from England to various individuals, 1767-1774

Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Letter books of letters from England to East India Company directors, 1767-1774.

Licensed to access Letter books of letters from England to East India Company directors, 1767-1774

Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Letter books of letters from England to India, 1767-1773.

Licensed to access Letter books of letters from England to India, 1767-1773

Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Index/list of correspondence, 1765-1767.

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Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Register of country correspondence received and sent, 1756-1758.

Licensed to access Register of country correspondence received and sent, 1756-1758

Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

View document: Letters in Persian, 1756-1774.

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Contributor National Library of Wales

CollectionThe East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

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A painting of the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency, Robert Clive.

Licensed to access The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

Contributor National Library of Wales Contents 18 Volumes, 168 Documents (24,507 Pages)

An illustration of St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta.

Licensed to access Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770–1931

Contributor Bodleian Library Contents 8 Volumes, 197 Documents (84,424 Pages)

Lord and Lady Curzon on an Elephant.

Licensed to access The British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879–1920

Contributor National Library of Scotland Contents 5 Volumes, 44 Documents (43,762 Pages)

A collage of buildings with the title Trade Unionism in India in the top left. On the right is an illustration of a man and woman in front of a hammer and sickle, with The Prisoners' Reply above them. Text reading Meerut 1931 runs down the right of the image.

Licensed to access Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929–1933

Contributor People's History Museum Contents 4 Volumes, 54 Documents (10,193 Pages)

Vintage engraving of Old India Office, London, 19th Century. East India House was the London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took control of the Company's possessions in India in 1858. It was located in Leadenhall Street in the City of London.

Licensed to access The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806–1814

Contributor National Library of Scotland Contents 21 Volumes, 268 Documents (132,086 Pages)

An image of the painting The Relief of Lucknow, by Thomas Jones Barker. The siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Licensed to access World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782–1908

Contributor India Office Library Contents 3 Volumes, 106 Documents (111,913 Pages)

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