Scottish Élites and the Indian Empire, 1700-1815

Proceedings of the British Academy

Volumn 127, Issue , 2005, Pages 213-229

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1. Rajat Kanta Ray, 'Indian society and the establishment of British supremacy, 1763-1818', in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998), pp. 508-29.
2. T. M. Devine, Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 (London, 2003), p. 203.
3. H. V. Bowen, Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 (Basingstoke, 1996), p. 150.
4. Quoted in Alex M. Cain, The Cornchest for Scotland: Scots in India (Edinburgh, 1986), p. 7.
5. Philip Lawson and Jim Phillips, '"Our Execrable Banditti": perceptions of nabobs in mideighteenth century Britain', Albion 16 (1984), p. 230.
6. J. Drummond of Quarrell to William Drummond, 18 March 1731, quoted in G. K. McGilvary, 'East India Patronage and the Political Management of Scotland, 1720-1774' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, The Open University, 1989), p. 207.
7. The figures for Scottish recruitment in this paragraph come from: John Riddy, 'Warren Hastings: Scotland's benefactor?', in Geoffrey Carnall and Colin Nicholson (eds), The Impeachment of Warrren Hastings (Edinburgh, 1989), p. 42;
8. Cain, Cornchest for Scotland, p. 13;
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10. G. K. McGilvray, 'Post-Union Scotland and the Indian connection', Cencrastus 37 (1990), pp. 30-4;
11. James G. Parker, 'Scottish enterprise in India, 1750-1914', in R. A. Cage (ed.), The Scots Abroad (London, 1985), pp. 197-8;
12. A. Mackillop, '"The Hard Men of the Peripheries", Scotland's military élite and the Imperial crisis, 1754-1784', unpublished paper given at the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, July 2002 (I am grateful to Dr Mackillop for allowing me to use his interesting paper).
13. Devine, Scotland's Empire, p. 260;
14. Thomas Bartlett, '"This famous island set in a Virginian sea": Ireland in the British Empire, 1690-1801', in Marshall (ed.), Oxford History of the British Empire, p. 212.
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18. Quoted in Michael Fry, The Dundas Despotism (Edinburgh, 1992), p. 111.
19. Parker, 'Scottish enterprise in India', pp. 197-8;
20. Riddy, 'Warren Hastings: Scotland's Benefactor?', p. 42.
21. L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London, 1996 edn), p. 135.
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24. Marshall, East India Fortunes, p. 255.
25. Quoted in Lawrence James, Raj: the Making and Unmaking of British India (London, 1998 edn), pp. 47-8.
26. McGilvray, 'Post-Union Scotland and the Indian connection', p. 31.
27. McGilvray, 'East India Patronage', p. 84.
28. Bryant, 'Scots in India', pp. 23-4.
29. Keith M. Brown, 'From Scottish lords to British officers: state building, elite integration and the army in the seventeenth century', in N. Macdougall (ed.), Scotland and War AD 79-1918 (Edinburgh, 1991), p. 143.
30. Steve Murdoch, Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (East Linton, 2000), pp. 208-13.
31. In a project led by Drs S. Murdoch and A. Grosjean, 'Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, 1580-1707', www.abdn.ac.uk/ssne
32. Quoted in Ned C. Landsman, Scotland and its First American Colony, 1683-1765 (Princeton, 1985), p. 107.
33. Hollingsworth, 'British ducal families', pp. 354-78.
34. L. Timperley, 'The pattern of landholding in eighteenth century Scotland', in M. L. Parry and T. R. Slater (eds), The Making of the Scottish Countryside (London, 1980), pp. 137-54;
35. R. F. Callander, A Pattern of Landownership in Scotland (Finzean, 1987), pp. 45-8;
36. Allan I. Machines, 'Landownership, land use and elite enterprise in Scottish Gaeldom: from clanship to clearance in Argyllshire, 1688-1858', in T. M. Devine (ed.), Scottish Elites (Edinburgh, 1994), p. 4.
37. T. M. Devine, The Transformation of Rural Scotland: Social Change and the Agrarian Economy 1660-1815 (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 19-35.
38. J. S. Shaw, The Political History of Eighteenth Century Scotland (Basingstoke, 1999), pp. 38-62;
39. P. W. J. Riley, The English Ministers and Scotland, 1707-1727 (London, 1964), passim.
40. Christopher A. Whatley, Scottish Society, 1707-1830: Beyond Jacobitism, Towards Industrialisation (Manchester, 2000), pp. 171-4;
41. T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (London, 1999), pp. 18-22.
42. Quoted in J. S. Shaw, The Management of Scottish Society 1707-1764 (Edinburgh, 1983), p. 86.
43. McGilvray, 'East India Patronage', passim;
44. J. G. Parker, 'The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1977).
45. Riddy, 'Warren Hastings: Scotland's benefactor?', pp. 30-57.