Cassell's Illustrated History of India

The history of India from the formation of the East India Company to around 1880. A truly fabulous book, which is a must for those researching ancestors, lives in British India.    

Price:  £15.11

Central Provinces District Gazetteers-Saugor District 1907

A superb gazetteer of the Saugor district, includes geography, details about religion, wages, population, disease, social life and customs, trade, communications and more.    

Price:  £12.13

Maritime Empires

Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83076-4

Price:  £50.00

Maritime Enterprise and Empire

This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's largest maritime and mercantile conglomerate, tracing the history of the various shipping firms within the group - including the British India, Netherlands India and Australasian United companies - and identifies the key factors behind its domination of coastal steamshipping around the Indian Ocean and into the western Pacific.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15935-5

Price:  £75.00

Missionary Women

This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83013-9

Price:  £60.00

Murray's Handbook - India, Burma & Ceylon 1926

A wonderful guide book. Here you will find all sorts of details about day to day life in India, such as information about how to get there, advice on food, health, railways and much, much more.    

Price:  £12.13

Murray's Handbook- India, Burma and Ceylon 1933

The fourteenth editon of this lovely guide book. See description of the 1926 edition as above.    

Price:  £12.13

Thacker's Indian Directory 1895

An incredibly comprehensive directory of the cities of Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Allahabad. Lahore, Simla and Rangoon. Included are an almanac, army lists, civil lists, railway list, newspaper directory and general information. There is also an incredible street by street directory of Calcutta and an excellent alphabetical directory of mostly British or Europeans in the area. Absolutely wonderful information for all of those with ancestors who lived and worked in the Sub-Continent.    

Price:  £17.87

The East India Register & Directory 1830

Complete lists of the servants of the East India Company both at home and abroad including civilians, military and marine personnel, also Europeans and mariners with interests in India but not in the service of the Company. A superb resource for anyone whose ancestors were involved with the Company or had links to India.    

Price:  £15.11

The East India Register & Directory 1844

Lists of the company's servants, with respective appointments; indexes to be same, and lists of casualties. Regulations and instructions respecting the appointment of writers, cadets, and assistant surgeons. Rules and regulations of civil, military, and medical funds, connected with the company's service; Births, Marriages, and Deaths in India; and a list of the East India Stock qualified to vote. London: Wm H Allen and Co, Whittaker and Co, and Gallie and Bayley.    

Price:  £15.11

The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58

A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83304-8

Price:  £30.00

The History of British India

A fabulous history of the sub-continent from the date of the first English 'expedition' in 1591 through to, and including the war with Afghanistan in the 1870's. An extremely comprehensive and well written book with an excellent 1881 map of India.    

Price:  £15.11

The History of Freemasonry

Three large volumes describe the history of Freemasonry across the world. Mediaeval origins in trades unions, decline during the Reformation and return in 1717 until 1887. Chronicles antiquities, symbols, customs and constitutions of every Grand Lodge, in England, Europe, Asia and North America.    

Price:  £25.49

The India Office List 1933

A very comprehensive directory compiled from Civil Lists of the Government of India. Includes military officers, recipients of medals, awards and details of those involved in the Sub-Continent government. Also a fascinating section featuring rules of the Civil Service. And a real gem, The Record of Services. A 437 page section with details of people and their service record in India.    

Price:  £12.13

The Richest East India Merchant

John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83303-1

Price:  £45.00

The Worlds of the East India Company

Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83073-3

Price:  £16.99