British Routes To India By H L Hoskins, 1928 Book

British Routes To India By H L Hoskins, 1928 Book

 

Title – British Routes To India By H L Hoskins, 1928 Book

Author – H L Hoskins

Publisher’s – Longmans, Green And Co

Year – 1928

This book, British Routes To India by H L Hoskins, is all about international rivalry for the shorter route to India and the East. Throughout the 16th, 17th, and most of the 18th century, direct European contact with India was by the long, slow route around the Cape of Good Hope. Various overland and sea routes to India and the East were attempted.

Many trials were made for a Suez Canal passage, working out of the Euphrates route, or the overland routes through Egypt, Turkey, or Persia, thus paving the way to India. In a way, contributing to the British, the French, the Portuguese, and the Dutch colonialists expansion in the east. The Europeans had vast interests in Asia, particularly in India, Ceylon, Indo-China, Indonesia, Australia, etc.

Formerly, they set sail via the Cape of Good Hope to reach India and other parts of the east. The East India Company maintained direct communications between England and Calcutta by this route for over 200 years. It took eight to nine months to make the journey around the Cape. Once the Suez Canal opened in 1869, the journey was shortened to few weeks rather than months. Adding great significance to lines of access on an economic and strategic basis.

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