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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):537-539; doi:10.1093/es/khn067
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Thomas Metcalf. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860–1920
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24946-2, $39.95 (cloth)
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Here is an imperial connection: Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe (with an "e"), 4th Baronet, served as agent of the Governor-General of British India at the court of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah. This was in the years immediately preceding the period of this book by the nearly eponymous Thomas Metcalf (no "e"), Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. The similarity of names is a coincidence, but the two Toms share a
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