The Honourable Company
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John Keay. The Honourable Company
The Honourable Company. John Keay
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Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE Islands of Spicerie. THE VOYAGES OF JAMES LANCASTER
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CHAPTER TWO This Frothy Nation. THE SPICE RACE
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CHAPTER THREE Pleasant and Fruitfull Lands. JAPAN, SIAM, AND THE COAST
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CHAPTER FOUR Jarres and Brabbles. THE ARABIAN SEA
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CHAPTER FIVE The Keye of All India. THE CAPE, SURAT AND PERSIA
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CHAPTER SIX These Frowning Times. RECESSION, FAMINE AND WAR
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CHAPTER SEVEN A Seat of Power and Trade. BOMBAY AND SURAT
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CHAPTER EIGHT Fierce Engageings. CALCUTTA AND BENGAL
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CHAPTER NINE Renegades and Rivals. PIRATES, INTERLOPERS AND COMPETITORS
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CHAPTER TEN Eastern Approaches. MADRAS, SIAM AND CHINA
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CHAPTER ELEVEN The Dark Age. BENGAL AND THE FARMAN
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CHAPTER TWELVE Outposts of Effrontery. THE LESSER SETTLEMENTS
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN One Man’s Pirate. BOMBAY AND THE ANGREYS
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Germ of an Army. MADRAS AND DUPLEIX
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Famous Two Hundred Days. REVOLUTION IN BENGAL
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Looking Eastward to the Sea. SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND THE CHINA TRADE
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Transfer of Power. LONDON AND BENGAL
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Too Loyal, Too Faithful. HASTINGS’S INDIA
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CHAPTER NINETEEN Tea Trade Versus Free Trade. THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC
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CHAPTER TWENTY Epilogue
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Bibliography. GENERAL
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
Index
Acknowledgement and Author’s Note
About the Author
By the Same Author
About the Publisher
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From the reviews of The Honourable Company:
‘What a marvellous story is that of the East India Company!…And John Keay tells it well, humanely and spicily, as well as all we need about organisation, background, etc…Mr Keay gives us the spectrum, the trade with China and Japan, the Arabian Gulf, the East Indies, India, the lot.’
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But that reputation for Islamic fanaticism which would lead a later writer to describe Acehnese hospitality as ‘equivalent to an abduction’ was not yet in evidence. Lancaster found himself confronted with nothing more daunting than an enormous Sumatran banquet which was served on platters of gold while the Sultan sat apart toasting his guests in arrack so fiery that ‘a little will serve to bringe one asleepe’. Belying the myth of the hard-drinking sea-dog, Lancaster diluted his drink and was thus still awake to witness the arrival of a bespangled all-female gamelan orchestra complete with willowy dancers. ‘The king’s damosels’, explained the fleet’s chronicler with obvious pride, ‘are not usually scene of any but such as the king will greatly honour.’
And greatly honoured the English were. Cockfights and other gruesome royal entertainments – buffalo fights, tiger fights, elephant fights – followed. Doubtless there was also a chance to sample the Acehnese speciality of a sub-aqua cocktail party. This usually took place in a nearby river, the guests being seated on submerged stools with water up to their armpits while servants paddled between them with an assortment of spicy delicacies and quantities of that fiery arrack. In 1613 one such party attended by British visitors lasted four hours. Next day two of the partygoers died; their condition was diagnosed as ‘a surfeit taken by immeasurable drunkenness’.
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