The Honourable East India Company (1600-1858)

Ordered by

Post Date
Artefacts
Article/Essays
Event
Links
New Books
Rare BOOKS
Rare Manuscripts
Rare Maps
Rare Paintings
Rare Photographs
Sculpture
Video
 7 Jan 2016 Rare Paintings
Sir Charles Warre Malet, Concluding a Treaty in 1790 in Durbar with the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
by Thomas Daniell

Date painted: 1805
Oil on canvas, 181 x 279.4 cm

Malet, of the East India Company, presents a scroll to the Peshwa Madhavrao II, formalising an alliance against another Indian ... Read More
 14 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Original papers relative to Tanjore: containing all the letters which passed, and the conferences which were held, between His Highness the Nabob of Arcot and Lord Pigot, on the subject of the restoration of Tanjore. Together with the material part of Lord Pigot's last dispatch... Read More
 11 Aug 2015 Rare Paintings
The signing of the Treaty of Bhairowal, Punjab on 26 December 1846.

Unusually, this painting illustrates an historical event - the signing of the treaty between the Sikh rulers of the Punjab and the British following the first Anglo-Sikh war (1845-46).

Painted on paper.
Pahari School
Kangra ... Read More
 16 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
Observations on the expediency of Shipbuilding at Bombay, for the service of His Majesty, and of the East India Company.
By William Taylor Money
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London - 1811

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1Hx8Bj0

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.l... Read More
 13 May 2015 Rare Paintings
Surat on the Banks of the Taptee - 1813

Plate twenty-seven from the first volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs", a work in the form of a series of letters richly illustrated, describing various aspects of nature, people and buildings he met with during his travels in India in the 1760s-70s. ... Read More
 12 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
English Factory Records on Shivaji (1659 to 1682)
Published by Shivcharitra Karyalaya, Poona - 1931

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1JFrJv8

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1IwkbOa

" If any portion of history merits more attention than others, it should seem that a period... Read More
 12 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Debates at the India House: August 22nd, 23rd, and September 24th, 1845, on the case of the deposed Raja of Sattara, and the impeachment of Col. C. Ovans.
Published by Effingham Wilson, London - 1845

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1IycCot

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1... Read More
 28 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The substance of the speech of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, in the House of Commons, Tuesday, June 16, 1795, on opening the East India Budget
By Henry Dundas Melville, First Viscount Melville (1742-1811)
Printed for J.Debrett, London - 1795

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/189... Read More
 26 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Third English Embassy To Poona
By J.H.Gense and D.R.Banaji
Published by D.B.Taraporevala Sons & Co., Bombay - 1934

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1hALHYb

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1rwIm3P

Image:
Sir Charles Warre Malet, Concluding a Treaty in 1790 in Durbar wit... Read More
 5 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling; the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug; and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain.
By Major-General R. Alexander
Published by Judd and Glass, London - 1856

Read Boo... Read More
 3 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
A View of the Tryal of Warren Hastings Esqr. before the Court of Peers
By Robert Pollard, by Francis Jukes, after Edward Dayes
Etching and aquatint, published 1789

© National Portrait Gallery, London Read More
 3 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Governors-Generals of India
By Henry Morris
Published by The Christian Literature Society, Madras - 1894

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1kO4Eu9

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1gNaN7d

Image:
Warren Hastings
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1811

Source: Nationa... Read More
 4 Mar 2013 Rare Paintings
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

Through the influence of the Prince-Regent, Moira was appointed Governor-General of India in 11 November 1812.[29] His tenure as Governor-General was a memorable one, overseeing the victory in the Gurkha War (1814–1816); the final conquest of t... Read More
 28 Feb 2013 New Books
New Book:
The Richest East India Merchant: The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta (1767 - 1836)
By Anthony Webster
Published by Boydell & Brewer Limited - 2009

Book Summary:
John Palmer, a merchant in Calcutta, dominated commercial life in India and the far east for over thirty ... Read More
 27 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Major William Palmer with His Second Wife, the Mughal Princess Bibi Faiz Bakhsh
By Johann Zoffany

Date painted: 1785
Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 127 cm

Her sister on his left. Three of his children and three women attendants complete the group.

The painting has also been attributed to Francesco Ren... Read More
 14 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Oudh and The East India Company, 1785-1801
By Purnendu Basu
Published by Maxwell & Co., Lucknow - 1943

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/HiMY3P

Download pdf book:

http://bit.ly/GYWwn4

Image:
Procession of Ghazi ud-Din Haidar (nawab 1814-1819; king 1819-1827) of Oudh passing ... Read More
 7 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Published Review (1801): As Mr. Porter's celebrated picture of the Storming of Seringapatam will probably be sent to embellish the eastern world, few private mansions being sufficiently capacious to contain it, and the spirit of public patronage too severely palsied by the calamities of the time... Read More
 7 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
'The coming-on of the monsoons; - or - the retreat from Seringapatam' - 6 December 1791

By James Gillray
Published by Hannah Humphrey
Hand-coloured etching

© National Portrait Gallery, London Read More
 7 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Narrative sketches of the Conquest of the Mysore: Effected by the British Troops and their allies, in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory.
Collected from authentic materials
Printed by W.Justins, Lo... Read More
 30 Jan 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Retrospective View and Consideration of India Affairs - Particularly of the transactions of the Mahratta War, from its commencement to the month of October, 1782
Printed for J.Debrett, London - 1783

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/117ZdjV


Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly... Read More
 29 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Sir Charles Warre Malet, Concluding a Treaty in 1790 in Durbar with the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
by Thomas Daniell

Date painted: 1805
Oil on canvas, 181 x 279.4 cm

Collection: Tate Gallery, London Read More