Bombay Company : 21 results priced between £5.00 and £75.00

Bombay on the Malabar Coast Belonging to the East India Company of England, 1754 - Jan Van Ryne - Giclee Print from Art.co.uk

Chinnery made a reputation in London as a miniaturist before proceeding in 1802 to India, and thence to Thailand, Cochin China, and China.

The East India Company impress with this fine selection of teas – from sweet and nutty rooibos to Bombay chai, accompanied by a feast of biscuits, chocolate enrobed fruit and condiments.

Hard hitting drama based on the Indian mafia out of Bombay.

BADMAASH COMPANY is an extraordinary story set in the 1990's in middle class Bombay (as it was known then), of four ordinary youngsters - Karan (Shahid Kapoor), Bulbul (Anushka Sharma), Zing (Meiyang Chang) and Chandu (Vir Das) - who came together to start an import business of things longed for by yuppie Indians!

A series of letters describing the experiences of a young officer of the Queen's Regiment (2nd Foot) in the First Afghan War (1839). This book consists of a series of letters (13 in all) from a young officer of the Queen's Regiment (2nd Foot) to members of his family, describing his experiences in the First Afghan War (1839). T.W.E Holdsworth (and that is how he signs himself at the end of his letters), wrote them without any thought of subsequent publication; it was the father (A.H.Holdsworth) who...

Hard hitting drama based on the Indian mafia out of Bombay.

London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant's assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay. A connection between the dead man and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade has caused the government concern. Can Liberty solve a murder that took place six months previously almost five...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:Under these circumstances, the Court expressed their Chap. II- apprehensions to the Presidency of Surat, for the safety of 1673-74. Bombay, as intelligence had been received from Holland, that the Dutch were equipping a large armament, the object of which, it was conjectured, was to invade that Island. These events...

Description The original full bodied English breakfast loose leaf tea blended to provide a rich, robust tea that compliments a hearty English breakfast. Chai tea contains a spiced tea delicious with milk. Our chai tea blends together a variety of spices, which honours the vibrancy of Bombay, and it’s Second Governor. A Royal Connection: It was customary for the East India Company to bring gifts on returning ships for the Sovereign. In 1664, the Company was distressed to find that no provision of...

An 11-year-old Indian boy is abandoned by his family and takes to the streets of Bombay, where he enjoys the company of a disparate group of pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and other street children. Shafiq Syed, the movie's star, had himself slept rough on the streets of Bombay, as had many of the other children who appear in the film.

Fanny Hill in Bombay is an impressively learned, scrupulously detailed study of John Cleland, author of one of the most salacious pieces of fiction in the English language. At the age of 18, Cleland arrived in Bombay in the service of the East India Company, where his skill at writing and talent for languages smoothed his progress from foot soldier to attorney, and from there to secretary of the Bombay council. One of his colleagues in India, Charles Carmichael, encouraged him to try his hand at...

This illustrated book is about a remarkable collection of botanical drawings belonging to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. The watercolors were commissioned by Alexander Gibson, an East India Company surgeon, and depict plants grown in the botanic gardens under his control in the Bombay Presidency. They are the work of an unknown Portuguese-Indian artist and were made between 1847 and 1850. The main section of the book includes colour reproductions of the 170 drawings arranged in order of the...

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The last and best of three lists of officers of the HEIC Artilleries.After opening with an outline chronology, provides long lists of officers in their various appointments in each Company and Troop. Further gives details for each unit showing its campaign services and changes of title.Separately, in a section of fifty pages, states the records of service of every officer who served with the Bombay Artillery during the stated period. SUB TITLED :List of Officers who have served in the Regiment of...

Details To those who wonder how Britain’s East India Company managed to dominate the vast Indian sub-continent this book provides at least part of the answer. Written by a former Indian Army officer it describes the company’s military organisation in India especially its ordnance departments and the factories it set up in Bombay Bengal Madras and elsewhere to manufacture the gunpowder and other explosives it used to subdue the recaltricent sub-continent. Of interest both to gunnery specialists and...

Details The campaigns of a 'soldier sahib' in the nineteenth century. The author of this book was a true soldier of the Raj. His long career took place almost entirely in India or was concerned with the wars of the Honourable East India Company. As a young man he joined the Bombay Rifles in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign and arrived in the sub-continent in time to take part in the Southern Maratha Campaign. Next came the wars that brought about the final destruction of the Sikh kingdom...

A history of the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers from 1911 to 1922, the year of disbandment, with full description of the disbandment ceremonies. The title tells the origins of the battalion. It was raised in India in 1661 by the Hon East india Company as four companies to provide the garrison for Bombay. In 1862 it was transferred to the Crown as the 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers). In the Cardwell reforms of 1881 it became the 2nd Battalion of the newly formed Royal Dublin...

Details The account of a brave and dashing cavalry officer during the turbulent years of the Victorian age. 'Billy' Johnson came from a well known family in Lincolnshire. He chose the life of a soldier in the Honourable East India Company's Bombay Army and travelled to the sub-continent to serve with both the 6th Bombay Native Infantry and the Guzerat Horse. He was the consummate sportsman and his accounts of tiger hunting and pig-sticking make riveting period reading. Ever keen to be in action...