
The Georgians and India
Following the East India Company’s take-over of Bengal in 1765, the Company gained a greater stronghold in south India as well, centred in Madras (modern Chennai). Soon a British political representative or ‘Resident’ was sent to every significant court in the subcontinent. Here they exerted considerable influence and control.
Letters and gifts, including manuscripts and paintings,were sent from many South Asian rulers toGeorge III and George IV. East India Company officers also presented gifts to the British monarchs, and by the early nineteenth century the Royal Library had amassed one of the most splendid collections of South Asian paintings and manuscripts outside the subcontinent.
Charles Turner (1774-1857)
A Representation of the delivery of the Ratified Treaty of 1790 by Sir Charles Warre Malet.
After Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842)
Body of Tippoo Sultaun Recognised by his Family
Richard Houston (1721-75)
[George III]
Thomas Watson (1748-81)
Warren Hastings
Johan Joseph Zoffany (Frankfurt 1733-London 1810)
Asaf ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
Sir William Jones (1746-94)
A Grammar of the Persian language / William Jones.
Sir Charles Wilkins (1749-1836)