The East India Company, 1600-1858, Volume 5: Warfare, Expansion and Resistance

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume V, entitled Warfare, Expansion and Resistance, raises a number of questions connected with the Company's growing military role, and examines some of the implications of Indian resistance to the growth of its power. This set uses reprinted first-hand sources, scholarly surveys, and thematically arranged collections of recent journal articles, to trace the history of the East India Company and present recent interpretations of its development.