{"id":26072,"date":"2015-02-18T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26072"},"modified":"2017-07-29T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T17:30:53","slug":"qotd-the-honourable-east-india-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/qotd-the-honourable-east-india-company\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Honourable East India Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;John Company&#8221; &mdash; the Honourable East India Company, described by Macaulay as &#8220;the strangest of all governments &#8230; for the strangest of all empires&#8221;, was Britain&#8217;s presence in India, with its own armed forces, civil service, and judiciary, until after the Indian Mutiny of 1857, when it was replaced by direct rule of the Crown. Flashman&#8217;s definition of its boundaries in 1845 is roughly correct, and although at this period it controlled less than half of the sub-continent, his expression &#8216;lord of the land&#8221; is well chosen: the Company was easily the strongest force in Asia, and at its height had a revenue greater than Britain&#8217;s and governed almost one-fifth of the world&#8217;s population. (See <em>The East India Company<\/em> by Brian Gardner (1971).) <\/p>\n<p>George MacDonald Fraser, <em>Flashman and the Mountain of Light<\/em>, 1990.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;John Company&#8221; &mdash; the Honourable East India Company, described by Macaulay as &#8220;the strangest of all governments &#8230; for the strangest of all empires&#8221;, was Britain&#8217;s presence in India, with its own armed forces, civil service, and judiciary, until after the Indian Mutiny of 1857, when it was replaced by direct rule of the Crown. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,23,41],"tags":[1149,971,469],"class_list":["post-26072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-india","category-quotations","tag-eastindiacompany","tag-flashman","tag-monopolies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26074,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072\/revisions\/26074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}