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Defending British India against Napoleon - The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13 (Hardcover)
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Defending British India against Napoleon - The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13 (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to
British India was countered. Following Napoleon's defeat of Prussia
in 1806 and his treaties with Russia and Persia in 1807, the French
threat to Britain's position in India seemed real and
strengthening. At the same time, Napoleon's economic warfare with
Britain and the success of French privateers in disrupting British
trade in the Indian Ocean were having a severe impact. This book,
based on extensive original research, relates in detail how Lord
Minto, a Cabinet-level politician who was appointed
Governor-General of Bengal in 1807, steadily and successfully
worked to counter the French threat. It examines how he built a
series of buffer alliances with local states on the northwest
frontier of India; captured the Indian Ocean islands used as bases
by French privateers, notably the Ile de France, now Mauritius;
and, in 1811, conquered Java, nominally Dutch but following the
incorporation of the Netherlands into the French Empire,
effectively French. Besides the details of Lord Minto's career and
activities, the book also provides full background information on a
wide range of relevant subjects, including the governance and
finances of the East India Company,the various polities of the
Indian subcontinent and neighbouring regions, and the political
situation in Britain and Europe. Amita Das completed her doctorate
at the University of Oxford. Aditya Das completed his doctorate at
West Virginia University.
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