TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baillie,Alexander Charles
TI  - Call of empire: from the Highlands to Hindostan 
SN  - 9780773552067
AV  - DS465 .B35 2017
U1  - 954.02/9 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Bailey family.
KW  - East India Company
KW  - fast
KW  - British
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Britanniques
KW  - Inde
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - British colonies
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History, Military
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Military history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Culloden's children -- No great mischief -- Eastward ho! -- Baillie-ki-Paltan -- Brothers in arms -- Affairs of the heart -- A council of incompetents -- Command at Pondicherry -- Disaster -- Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam -- Homeward bound -- Brain fever in Baghdad -- Estrangement -- John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund -- Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores -- The resident at Lucknow -- Dismissal -- Retribution -- Dissolution
N2  - "From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."--
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