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*[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule in India''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962. Archive.org Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India.
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==FIBIS Resources==
*[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=137&s_id=56 Alphabetical list of Directors of the East India Company from 1758-1858]
*A review by Richard Morgan of the book ''The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858'' by Daniel O’Connor 2012. ''FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012)'', pages 53-54. For details of how to access this article see [[FIBIS Journals]]
*"Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Director of the HEIC" by George Buxton ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 49-50. He lived 1745-1813. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company Honourable East India Company] Wikipedia
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_associated_with_the_British_East_India_Company People associated with the British East India Company]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220416185541/http://www.hubert-herald.nl/BhaHEIC.htm Honourable East India Company]. Coat of arms, seals, marks. “National Arms and Emblems Past and Present” hubert-herald.nl, archived.
*London and beyond
**[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46473 Poplar High Street [London<nowiki>]</nowiki>: The Church of St Matthias and the East India Company’s Almshouses] from British History Online
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20191113112053/http://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-east-india-company-20190828-p52lhf "The rise and rise of the East India Company"] by William Dalrymple 5 September 2019 ''Financial Review'', archived link. An extract from ''The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company'' by William Dalrymple.
: Listen to [https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/william-dalrymple-on-the-east-india-company/ William Dalrymple on the East India Company] October 7, 2019 ''History Extra'' Podcast from BBC. How a single London corporation took over the Mughal empire and became a major imperial power.
:Listen to [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/william-dalrymple-british-east-india/11648048 William Dalrymple on the ruthless rise of the British East India Company] Part of the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Commission] radio series ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' , broadcast 4 November 2019.
*[http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160330-the-worlds-most-powerful-corporation "The world’s most powerful corporation"] by Amanda Ruggeri 30 March 2016 bbc.com.
*[http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/files/2013/01/EIC-Bibliography-Final-21.08.14.pdf East India Company Bibliography] “The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 – UCL History” ucl.ac.uk
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8425 ''The Civil and Military Patronage of the East India Company, 1784-1858''] by John Michael Bourne 1977 PhD thesis, University of Leicester.
*[https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/376 ''Company culture: information, scholarship, and the East India Company settlements 1660-1720s''] by Anna E Winterbottom 2010 PhD thesis, University of London. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77036594.pdf Pdf, core.ac.uk]
* Listen to [http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-andrew-phillips/8818328 "The Rise and Fall of the East India Company"], an interview with Andrew Phillips. Part of the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Commission] radio series ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' , broadcast 24 August 2017. Duration: 50min 11sec. Andrew Phillips is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPVLr4Np0jA&feature=share Episode 1 – The East India Company] [The origins] 6 minute YouTube video. Originates from the website [http://400yearsseries.com 400 Years: Britain & India].
*[https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298421/ ''A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries, with the settlements, factories and territories, explaning [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki> what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal etc. with many remarks not extant in any other map''] c1717- 1720 by Herman Moll, geographer. University of Texas. Also available [https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:cj82ks67n Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library] and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231221936/view National Library of Australia]. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3426425 catalogue description from NLA].
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindianchrono00hawkuoft/page/n3/mode/2up ''The East Indian Chronologist : where the historical events respecting the East Indian Company are briefly arranged in succession from the date of their Charter in 1600, to the 4th of June 1801, with other particulars necessary to be known, as interesting to the inhabitants of India''] Printed at Calcutta 1801. Archive.org. Note: There are many scribbles and crossings out on the text. The British Library catalogue gives the author as John Hawkesworth.
*''Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: From Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707-8'' by John Bruce (1810). Google Books: [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s4NAAAAIAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=J84NAAAAIAAJ Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qbYIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=STIwAAAAYAAJ ''A Sketch of the History of the East-India company: from its first formation to the passing of the Regulating act of 1773; with a summary view of the changes which have taken place since that period in the internal administration of British India''] by Robert Grant (1813) Google Books
*''The English Factories in India: A Calendar of Documents in the India Office, British Museum and Public Records Office'' by William Foster Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories01fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1618-1621] 1906 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactorie00fostgoog 1622-1623] 1908 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories03fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1624-1629] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories04fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1630-1633] 1910 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories05fostuoft#page/n5/mode/2up 1634-1636] 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories06fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1637-41] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories07fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1642-45] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories08fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1646-1650] 1914 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories09fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1651-1654] 1915 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories10fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1655-1660] 1921 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories11fost#page/n7/mode/2up 1661-1664] 1923'''.''' Volume 12 1665-1667, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206632 Archive.org mirror version DLI] 1925 and Volume 13 1668-1669, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206636 Archive.org version DLI] although the author is incorrectly catalogued.
:''The English Factories in India'' ... New series by Sir Charles Fawcett. ''vol. 1. The Western Presidency, 1670-1677''. 1936. ''vol. 2. The Eastern Coast and Bengal, 1670-1677''. 1952. ''vol. 3. Bombay, Surat and Malabar Coast 1678-1684''. 1954. ''vol. 4. The Eastern Coast and Bay of Bengal 1678-1684''. 1955. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84022 Vol I Archive.org version, DLI]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285593/page/n3 Vol III Archive.org version, DLI]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.135647 Vol IV Archive.org version, DLI]. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000870347 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access, the latter catalogue entry says: In this "new set of volumes...the contents of the records are to be digested into a readable account of the main events in each year."
*''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series'' edited by W Noel Sainsbury. Archive.org and HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/colonialrecordsc02greauoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 East Indies, China and Japan 1513-1616''] 1862; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483915?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume 3 East Indies, China and Japan 1617-1621''] 1870, [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.00256 Archive.org version]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483949?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume 4 East Indies, China and Japan 1622-1624''] 1878, [https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep04grea/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc06greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 6 East Indies, China and Persia 1625-1629''] 1884; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc08greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 8 East Indies and Persia 1630-1634''] 1892. [v. 1, 5, 7, 9- America and West Indies].
*''A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company'' by Ethel Bruce Sainsbury Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm01sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1635-1639''] 1907 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''1640-1643''] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1644-1649''] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1650-1654''] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm05sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1655-1659'' ] 1916 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16601663sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1660-1663''] 1922
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/memoironaffairso00eastrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoir On The Affairs of the East India Company''] pub J.L.Cox London 1830 - archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/reviewofcontestc00dalriala#page/n87/mode/2up ''Review of the contest, concerning four new regiments graciously offered by His Majesty to be sent to India on the late apprehension of war, and then, gratefully accepted, by the Court of directors of the East-India company, who, on the change of circumstances, by the re-establishment of peace, have rescinded their resolution of acceptance it appearing the expence, to the East-India company, would be above £50,000 [<nowiki>per]</nowiki> annum more, than a like number of recruits sent to India in the company's service''] by Alexander Dalrymple 1788 Archive.org
*''Ledger and Sword; or, The Honourable Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies (1599-1874)'' by Beckles Wilson Willson 1903 [https://archive.org/details/ledgerswordorhon01willuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ledgerandswordo01willgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiatradein00khanuoft ''The East India Trade in the XVIIth century, in its Political and Economic Aspects''] by Shafaat Ahmad Khan 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275926/page/n1/mode/2up ''The East India House: Its History and Associations''] by William Forster 1924. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8935/page/n3/mode/2up ''John Company''] by William Foster 1926. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1834'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926. Five Volumes. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80805 Vol. I, Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73362 Vol. III, Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533212 Vol. IV, Archive.org], originally from Digital Library of India. All volumes are also available as pdf downloads from GIPE Digital Books-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune. Volumes [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23767 1], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23769 2], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23770 3], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23771 4], [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23772 5]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. All volumes are also available online from the The University of British Colombia, including [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373598#p0z-10000r0f: Volume II] and [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373622#p0z-7r0f: Volume V], but note these may be slow to load, and you may need to use a browser such as Chrome, (there being problems with Safari) - however downloads are available.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503211 ''Commerce And Conquest: The Story Of The Honourable East India Company''] by Claude Lestook Reid, first published 1947. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/johncompanyatwor0000furb/page/n9 ''John Company at Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late eighteenth century''] by Holden Furber. 1970 reprint of 1948 original edition. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes the English, [[French]], [[Dutch]], and [[Danish]] East India Companies.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57461/page/n5 ''The Rise And Fall Of The East India Company''] by Ramkrishna Mukherjee 1955. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule in India''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962. Archive.org Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiacompany00gard/mode/2up ''The East India Company : a History''] by Brian Gardner 1990 reprint, first published 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xIRDjWYlaC4C&pg=PA513 ''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-first of March, 1792, to the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794: With an Appendix''] Google Books
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ih8Thtomd74C&pg=PA657 ''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795: With an Appendix''] Google Books
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