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Road to Simla, India, ca. 1906 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-14)
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Road to Simla, India, ca. 1906
Black and white lantern slide showing a view of the road from Simla to Calcutta through the mountains. Simla was formerly the summer capital of the British Raj in India, and is now in West Bengal. Calcutta is now the capital of West Bengal state and was the capital of East India Company territories until 1911. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-14.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1910
Subject (unesco): Travel; Transport; Transport infrastructure
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: Volume3/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-14.tif
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): India
Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Geographic subject (continent): Asia
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India captioned lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS14)
Repository email: [email protected]
Date created: 1900/1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): topographical views
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Bihar
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: roadways
File: CSCNWW33/OS14/14
Contributor: Gardner & Co Opticians, Glasgow
Subject (lcsh): Roads; Mountains
The British East India Company was the first joint-stock corporation to be formed in England, and it eventually became one of the most powerful trading companies in the world, with a virtual monopoly on trade in India and the East Indies. The East India Company or the British East India Company and informally as John Company was an English and later British joint-stock company, which was formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China. After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. Permission was granted, and on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea. On 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies. The governance of the company was in the hands of one governor and 24 directors or "committees", who made up the Court of Directors. They, in turn, reported to the Court of Proprietors, which appointed them. Ten committees reported to the Court of Directors. According to tradition, business was initially transacted at the Nags Head Inn, opposite St Botolph's church in Bishopsgate, before moving to India House in Leadenhall Street. The company played a key role in the spread of British influence in India and the development of the British Empire. However, it also became involved in corruption and exploitation, and it was eventually dissolved in 1858, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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