From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-450) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 954.02/9
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- a-ii---
- ISBN
- 9780773552067 9780773551244
- LCCN
- DS463
- LCCN Item number
- B35 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 468 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238358 (OCoLC)991530783 (CaOOCEL)453314
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Maps, Illustrations, and Family Trees 14
- 1 Culloden’s Children 28
- 2 No Great Mischief 43
- 3 Eastward Ho! 56
- 4 Baillie-ki-Paltan 72
- 5 Brothers in Arms 93
- 6 Affairs of the Heart 108
- 7 A Council of Incompetents 131
- 8 Command at Pondicherry 163
- 9 Disaster 179
- 10 Imprisonment and Death at Seringapatam 201
- 11 Homeward Bound 236
- 12 Brain Fever in Baghdad 254
- 13 Estrangement 276
- 14 John of Leys and the Acquisition of Bundelcund 289
- 15 Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores 313
- 16 The Resident at Lucknow 325
- 17 Dismissal 338
- 18 Retribution 359
- 19 Dissolution 375
- Epilogue 386
- Colonial and Current Place Names 392
- Cast of Supporting Characters 394
- Glossary of Anglo-Indian and Scottish Terms 434
- Notes 438
- Bibliography 468
- Index 476
