Название: Scotland and the Indian Empire: Politics, Scholarship and the Military in Making British India
Автор: Alan Tritton
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1788318099
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 75,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged 30, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807.