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The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858 (Hardcover)
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The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858 (Hardcover)
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The East India Company's merchants were called Adventurers because
they ventured their money in the risky markets of the Spice Islands
and the fabulously wealthy Mughal Empire. In another sense also,
the Company's entire 250 years were an adventure, exciting and
dangerous, and creating over time, by violence and corruption, an
empire. Contrary to the common view, the Company always claimed a
Christian identity, hence the chaplains, on their voyages and in
their trading 'factories' and garrisons, to guard the morals and
morale of their operations. This the chaplains did with varying
conviction and success. Forbear of the multinational of today, the
Company continues to fascinate, attracting a vast amount of study
worldwide as an economic and political phenomenon, an instrument of
development, patron of art, and locus of attention in the
new-imperial and postcolonial literature. Virtually unnoticed
hitherto alongside the seafarers, merchant-adventurers, soldiers
and imperialists, and their Indian collaborators, was a succession
of educated, mostly young men with a tricky assignment and a
distinct angle on all that took place: the chaplains. >
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