Scotland and the Indian Empire: Politics, Scholarship and the Military in Making British India

by Alan Tritton

Overview

This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged 30, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807.

Both men had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children, 9 of whom were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by John's sister Margaret Baillie. This book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786726551
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/12/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Alan Tritton was born in 1931 and educated at Eton College. In 1950-52 he was on active service in the Far East as a Commissioned Officer with his Regiment the Seaforth Highlanders, where he was severely wounded in action. In 1954, following a previous sub-Arctic expedition in 1949, he was appointed Station Leader of the South Orkneys Antarctic Station of the then Falkland Island Dependencies Survey - now the British Antarctic Survey - later on he was elected President of the Antarctic Club. He participated in a number of Polar and Himalayan expeditions including the British Trans-Arctic Expedition and the British Everest South West Face expedition in 1975. He was elected a Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society and later on a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society. Prior to that he established the Calcutta Tercentenary Trust, which restored and conserved the British and European heritage paintings in the possession of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta and was the President of the British Association of Cemeteries in South Asia. For his work in India, he was awarded the C.B.E. in 1999.
Alan Tritton is Vice-President and Member of Council of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in Essex in the UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Setting the Scene
Chapter Two: Edmonstone's Family - His Voyage to and Arrival at Calcutta
Chapter Three: Baillie's Family - His Voyage to Arrival in Calcutta
Chapter Four: Descriptions of Late 18th Century Calcutta
Chapter Five: Marriages and Mistresses
Chapter Six: Baillie's Bibi and His Four Scottish Indian Children/Edmonstone's Bibi and His Four Scottish Indian Children
Chapter Seven: Edmonstone's Early Days in Calcutta
Chapter Eight: The Kennaway Embassy to Hyderbad
Chapter Nine: Sir John Shore Governor-General
Chapter Ten: Two Missions to Lucknow
Chapter Eleven: Baillie's Academic Prowess/ Sir Richard Wellesley Govenor-General
Chapter Twelve: Fort William College, Calcutta
Chapter Thirteen: Treaty of Bassein/The Second Anglo-Mahratta War
Chapter Fourteen: The Story of General De Boigne
Chapter Fifteen: The Capture of Agra/The Second Anglo-Mahratta War continued
Chapter Sixteen: Captain Baillie Appointed Political Agent for Bundelkhand/Anupgiri Himmat Bahadur/Colonel Mieselback
Chapter Seventeen: Baillie's Treat of Jhansi/Anupgiri's Jaidad Misuse/His Death
Chapter Eighteen: The Return of Lord Cornwallis and his Death/General Lake's Settlement with Holkar/An Assasination Attempt
Chapter Nineteen: Sir George Barlow
Chapter Twenty: Captain Baillie's Appointment as Resident at Lucknow in 1807 and Associated Correspondance
Chapter Twenty-One: Lucknow
Chapter Twenty-Two: A Very Short History of Oudh
Chapter Twenty-Three: Captain Baillie's Lucknow Family
Chapter Twenty-Four: Captain Baillie's Tenure as Resident and his Downfall
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Capture of Bourbon, Mauritius, Amboyna, The Dutch Spice Islands and Java
Chapter Twenty-Six: Lord Moira Govenor-General/The Oudh Loans
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Edmonstone Leaves Calcutta
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Baillie Leaves Lucknow for Calcutta
Appendices