East India Company: India Office Records from the British Library, 1595-1947

摘要

East India Company is a unique official archive that charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1600 to 1947. As the company had a trade monopoly in India and the Orient from 1600 to 1813, it is the sole primary source for more than two centuries of trade data and a source of trade and governmental information for almost another century and a half. It contains the collection of India Office Records from the British Library that includes royal charters; legislation; letters of marque; correspondence; trading diaries; reports of expeditions and minutes of council meetings, Courts of Directors and Proprietors, the Council of India and of the general committees and offices of the East India. Company.