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Title: Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company; and Also an Appendix and Index I. Public
Description: Not Stated, Not Stated, 1853. Cloth. A very scarce volume of minutes of evidence on the affairs of the East India Company. Ordered to be printed 20th August 1853. Very scarce. Volume I - Public. A detailed record of the minutes of evidence on the affairs of the East India Company, an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. Formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. At its peak, it was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies. With extracts from the Report of the Committee. Includes commentary on the home government, local government, law, natives, ecclesiastical commitment, patronage, education, the press, the settlement of Europeans in India, and much more. Previously held in the Ministry of Education Reference Library. Bound in modern cloth. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards with a Ministry of Education sticker to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the first and last few pages. Small closed tears to the page edges of the first few pages only. Light spotting to the foredge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Minutes Evidence Affairs East India Company Evidence Committee None


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