British India And Its Trade Classic Reprint

Excerpt from British India: Calcutta Calcutta's trade in metals was even more upset by the war in 1916 - 17 than in 1915 - 16. High prices and more recently the necos sity of obtaining priority certificates have reduced contracts to the lowest possible requirements. In the United Kingdom control of the steel trade dates practically from the creation of the Ministry of Munitions. Maximum prices have since been fixed for most metals, and the quantities available for ordinary commercial pur poses are very greatly reduced. The result in India has been to post. Pone all new work which was not really urgent and to hamper ex isting constructions by the shortage and uncertainty of supplies. While the actual decrease in the trade is equivalent to about 42 per cent in weight the high prices ruling show a decline in of only 6 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The History of British India, Vol. 3 of 8 When a number of individuals unite themselves in any common interest, reason suggests, that they themselves should manage as much as it is convenient for them to manage and that they should make choice of persons to execute for them such parts of the business as cannot be conveniently transacted by themselves. It was upon this principle, that the adventurers in the trade to India originally framed the constitution of their Company. They met in assemblies, which were called Courts of Proprietors, and transacted certain parts of the common business; And they chose a certain number of persons belonging to their own body, and who were called Committees,1 to manage for them other parts of the business, which they could not so well perform themselves. The whole of the managing business, therefore, or the whole of the government, was in the hands of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Expansion of Trade in China British India's Trade has increased from rupees in 1869, or at to rupees in 1899, or at 13. An Oxpansion in rupees of 103 percent. The annual figures of the trade of the three countries from 1869 are given in tables appended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A History of British India, Vol. 1: To the Overthrow of the English in the Spice Archipelago Again the victors fought over the spoils. Those spoils lay chiefly not on the Indian coast, but in the Eastern Archipelago. India was then a half way house for the richer traffic of the Spice Islands. The third Act unfolds the strife between the two Protestant sea-powers for this prize. The Nether lands had long contained the marts by which the produce of the East, transhipped at Lisbon to Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, was distributed to N orthem and Central Europe. The capture of the Indian trade seemed to Holland a continuation of her just revolt against Portugal and Spain, a heritage from her hard subjection, and the seal of the independence which she had so dearly won. To England it was but the mercantile development, on an extended scale, of the sea enterprise of the Elizabethan adventurers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Peace in India: How to Attain It One tenth of the entire trade of the British Empire passes through the seaports of India; and this sea borne trade is more than one-third of the trade of the Empire outside the United Kingdom. It is greater than that of Australia and Canada com bined, and Within the Empire Indian sea-b orne trade is second only to that of the United Kingdom. India has become the largest producer of food and raw material in the Empire, and the principal granary of Great Britain, the imports into the United Kingdom of wheat, meal, and flour from India exceeding those of Canada, and being double those of Australia. For all these reasons the question of the present dangerous situation in India is of momentous interest to everyone in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sketch of the History, Government and Resources of British India: With Tables of the Revenue and Expenditure It will doubtless appear presumptuous for any person, and more especially one not in the slightest degree connected with east-indian affairs, to attempt so vast a subject in the circumscribed space of a pamphlet; but it must be recollected that no more is meant than to give such a general idea of the' country as may be obtained by reading and inquiry. It was at first intended merely to publish the Tables of the Revenue and Expenditure, but the investigation necessary for that purpose produced an irresistible desire to make the hazardous attempt of an entire sketch of the country. This sketch will, of course, contain only an outline of the internal administration and economy of our Indian possessions. Indeed, it is hardly possible, in any case, for an individual not locally acquainted with a country to descend with accuracy into the minute details of its government and constitution, and, even if it were, it is very doubtful whether such a knowledge would be of any service to those who lived at a distance from it, and had not the opportunity of observing the practical operation of the system. Custom frequently intro dunes deviations from established regulations, which are not to be learned without practical experience, or, at all events, an extent of research to which the advantage to be obtained seems hardly commensurate. National manners and prejudices also have so great an in uence on the minutia of the business of administration, that it would not always be easy to discover the identity of establishments in different countries, though their actual constitution might be precisely the same. Hence a bare description of the rules, however minute, by which the affairs of a nation are conducted, will afford, after all, but a general idea of its government and internal economy; and the notion we might form in our minds of a country which was actually regulated by such ordi nances, might still differ very widely from the reality. It is from considerations like these that the author has thought a sketch of the leading features of the Indian empire would be sufficient to give such a general idea as to lead to a right understanding of affairs connected therewith, and that some useful information might be contained in a few pages, which would not be unacceptable to the general reader who was not anxious to enter into the more detailed histories. The narrative is to be considered merely as a record of events connected with the acquisition of territory or tribute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Political and Military Events in British India, Vol. 1: From the Years 1756 to 1849 It is presumed that the subject of Indian affairs must be interesting to all those now in the ser vice of the East India. Company; to those who have retired from it; and likewise to persons who may hereafter enter the military profession in India. To the relations and friends of all the above classes, even, the present publication may not be without its value. The earlier period of the East India Company's connexion with India, when only possessed of factories, and in the character of merchants trading to the East Indies, was important chiefly in a mercantile and commercial point of view; deprived of the trade of India and of the trade to China they assumed a new character - that of sovereigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Vol. 14: July to December 1822 The consolidation and simplifying of these regulations cannot therefore be otherwise than desirable to persons engaged in foreign trade; but when it is proposed to carry reform to a ra dical point, and to abrogate those laws under which our shipping and naviga tion have grown up and flourished, it is extremely natural for those whose interests are nearly concerned in the measure, to require beforehand the most ample and satisfactory evidence that the benefits to flow from it are certain, or that it is called for by ah solute necessity. Ir is reasonable to ask why those very restrictions, to which we have hitherto ascribed our naval and commercial eminence, should now be regarded by us as impediments; and whether foreigners are at the pre sent period less able or less willing to attempt maintaining a rivalry with the British merchant The answer to this inquiry exhibits the state Of our trade in such a deplorable point of view, that I cannot believe it is not founded upon false or delusive infor mation: it is nothing less, in short, than this, that our commerce is de parting from us, and we can hope to retain even a portion Of it only by giving up, or at least greatly relaxing, our jealous prohibitory system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.