TY - BOOK ED - Smith, Kate ED - Finn, Margot AB - The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies. DO - 10.14324/111.9781787350274 ID - OAPEN ID: 643796 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1028748141 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30702 KW - empire KW - east india company KW - asia KW - britain KW - English country house L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30702/1/643796.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31139 PB - UCL Press PY - 2018 SN - 9781787350281 SN - 9781787350298 SN - 9781787350267 SN - 9781787350250 SN - 9781787350243 TI - The East India Company at Home 1757-1857null ER -