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Raffles & Hastings - Private Exchanges Behind the Founding of Singapore (Paperback)
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Raffles & Hastings - Private Exchanges Behind the Founding of Singapore (Paperback)
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The founding of Singapore has typically been attributed to the
strategic genius of one man, Stamford Raffles. Frequently
overlooked is the part played by his superior in the East India
Company, the Marquess of Hastings. It was Hastings who, as
Governor-General of India, made the fateful decision to establish a
British trading post at the southern entrance of the Malacca
Straits, and once this was executed with great daring by Raffles in
early 1819, it was Hastings again who supported the retention of
Singapore against opposition from all quarters. This book provides
an intimate account of Singapore's founding by drawing on the
personal correspondence between these two men, which they
maintained separately from their official exchanges. Published here
for the first time, these private letters reveal at first-hand the
challenges that Raffles and Hastings faced in maneuvering within
the Dutch-dominated East Indies. Just as significantly, they reveal
the complex relationship between the two men-evolving from mutual
suspicion at the outset to cooperation and admiration, but
nonetheless peppered throughout with backbiting, hidden agendas and
the clash of personal ambitions. Historian John Bastin brings
rigorous scholarship to bear on this work, at the same time
presenting it in a clear, readable style that will engage
specialist and general readers alike.
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