Title
Rise and Progress of the British Power in India by Peter Auber
Year/Period
1837
Region
London
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2019-00362
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British East India Company trading factory in Singapore in 1819. During his founding of Singapore and his concurrent administration of Bencoolen in Sumatra as Lieutenant-Governor, Peter Auber was Assistant Secretary of the East India Company, and in that capacity kept him updated on Company politics. In this book, Auber appraises Raffles’ actions and argues that they led to the eventual establishment of a demarcation line between British and Dutch spheres of influence.
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