Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social

This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political interconnections between nineteenth-century British imperial, Irish and Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues that Ireland was a crucial sub-imperial centre for the British Empire in South Asia that provided a significant amount of the manpower, intellectual and financial capital that fuelled Britain's drive into Asia from the 1750s onwards. He shows the important role that Ireland played as a centre for recruitment for the armed forces, the medical and civil services and the many missionary and scientific bodies established in South Asia during the colonial period. In doing so, the book also reveals the important part that the Empire played in shaping Ireland's domestic institutions, family life and identity in equally significant ways.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: networks of empire - Ireland and India	p. 1
Introduction	p. I
Colony, nation and empire	p. 3
Transnational histories of empire	p. 11
Networks and empire	p. 14
Irish imperial networks	p. 17
The business of empire	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Colonial trade and Ireland in the eighteenth century	p. 26
The extension of Irish Atlantic networks eastward: Ireland and the East Indian trade	p. 31
'In the road of the chiefest trade in the world': East India Company agencies and 'colonial' ports in eighteenth-century Ireland	p. 42
East Indian trade and the Irish Sulivan connection	p. 44
London and the fashioning of Irish business networks in South Asia	p. 49
East India Company patronage networks and Ireland	p. 51
Smuggling, private trade and commercial links between Ireland and India in the late eighteenth century	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 62
British overseas expansion, Ireland and the sinews of colonial power	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
Atlantic isolation and the birth of the second British Empire	p. 66
The East India Company, Ireland and the Seven Years War	p. 68
Robert Brooke's army of 'idle natives' and 'dissolute mechanics'	p. 75
Union for Ireland, union for the Empire	p. 81
The fashioning of an Irish imperial identity in India	p. 85
Localised networks and patterns of exchange	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 97
From trade to dominion	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Ireland and the shaping of imperial science	p. 101
The Irish Ordnance Survey and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India	p. 106
Surveying and colonial power in Ireland and India	p. 111
Thomas Oldham and the Geological Survey of India	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 126
Religion, civil society and imperial authority	p. 129
Introduction	p. 129
The Catholic Church in Ireland after the Union	p. 131
Roman Catholicism and the East India Company	p. 136
Catholic priests and Irish soldiers in India's military cantonments	p. 141
Irish Catholicism and Indian caste: Daniel O'Connor and the Madras mission	p. 145
The East India Company and the growth of Irish Catholic networks	p. 154
Fenian agitation in India	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 167
From Company to Crown rule	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Medicine and the modernising state: Ireland and India	p. 171
Irishmen and the East India Company's Medical Services, pre 1840s	p. 177
The Great Famine and the Irish School of Medicine	p. 185
Irish doctors and the Crown Raj	p. 193
Irish universities and the growth of professional networks	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 202
Imperial crisis and the age of reform	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
Irish recruitment and the Indian Civil Service, 1855-1900	p. 207
Social and intellectual origins of Irish civil servants in British India	p. 211
Irish 'Orientalists', the Gaelic revival and the Indian Civil Service after 1858	p. 216
Land, tenancy and nationalist thought: Irish and Indian connections	p. 224
'L'enfant terrible of the ICS': C. J. O'Donnell and the British administration of Bengal, 1872-82	p. 228
Emergent Irish and Indian nationalisms	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 250
Conclusion	p. 253
Glossary	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 266
Index	p. 291
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Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India

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