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A Short History of the Bombay Presidency

A Short History of the Bombay Presidency

Edmund C Cox

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9353605733
ISBN13: 9789353605735
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
To understand Bombay is to understand an empire in miniature. Bombay was never a backwater. In this concise yet richly detailed account, Edmund C. Cox traces the rise of the Bombay Presidency from scattered coastal enclaves to a pivotal province of the British Raj in western India. A landmark British India history book, it sits at the crossroads of colonial India nonfiction and regional history of India, following the transformation of a trading outpost into a complex administrative machine. From early East India Company factories through consolidation under Crown rule, Cox surveys campaigns, diplomacy, law, land revenue, and municipal growth, always attentive to the entanglement of trade and governance in Bombay and the wider currents shaping the nineteenth-century Bombay Presidency. For Indian history students it offers a clear, compact overview of the history of Bombay Presidency and the workings of British colonial administration in India; for scholars it endures as a dependable reference for history researchers and for anyone tracing East India Company history within the broader history of the British Raj. At once a period narrative and a revealing document of imperial attitudes, Cox's study opens a window onto policy, commerce, and everyday governance in western India. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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