British society in India under the East India Company

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The colonial British community in India worked hard to maintain a distinctly British society and presence though early in the colonial process much was shaped by Indian society. Considering the few women present, the young age of the men, and the rigid social strata, the British community in India was too unusual to be labelled a typically British society. The community, though not homogeneous, reflected many of the changes taking place in the UK and managed to maintain its autonomy and distinctiveness even as the East Indian Company period neared an end.

Imperialism

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History as self-representation: the recasting of a political tradition in late eighteenth-century eastern India

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The decades between 1757 and 1772 was the implementation of the British colonial regime in Eastern India through the transformation of the English East India Company from a merchant trading business into a merchant sovereign. However, the company discovered that the task of administering the society to extract the largest possible business surplus was impossible without understanding Indian institutions, political power, customs, and traditions.

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The white town of Calcutta under the rule of the East India Company

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Encounters between Europeans and Indian intellectuals under the East India Company in late 18th- and early 19th-century Calcutta resulted in accidental diffusion of European culture. The British majority's cultural self-sufficiency and effort to maintain British norms unintentionally offered a rich source of information for Indians interested in the west.

India, Calcutta, India, Culture diffusion

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