Talk:East India Company: Difference between revisions

****{{re|Johnbod}}, if you read the respective sections on the regulating acts in the two articles, which have approximately the same word count (give or take a 100), you'll notice that the one I removed (from this article) is mostly a pro forma excerpting/listing of the language of the acts. Many sub-sections are cited to the acts themselves. No background is given, no attendant political storms in the metropolis (London) or the periphery (India) are described. The education act, moreover, is not a Regulationregulating Actact, neither is the 1853 Government of India act. Even so, my main reason for removing it is that it has no DUE secondary sources (textbooks, monographs, or highly cited journal articles). The Company rule in India, [[Company_rule_in_India#Regulation_of_Company_rule|RegulationRegulating acts]], in contrast, is written in prose. When there is no citation, it is the ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' that is being cited. [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V04_043.gif Here are] the IGI pages 14, 15, and 16, describing the regulation acts. (<small> Aside: I wrote that 13 or 14 years ago. The references can easily be updated with the many books published since. The Company rule article does need a rigorous reworking, and in many ways, it is the article I am most interested in (much more so than [[India]] or the [[British Raj]]), but I don't have the time right now, even though most references do sit on my shelves.</small>) Getting back to this article, I'm sure there is plenty in the secondary sources about the regulation of the ''London-based'' activities, businesses, etc. of the Company. The proper province for discussing ''those'' is this article, but it requires careful reading and precis-ing of some of the sources I have listed above. All that has not happened yet. When that is achieved, there would be proper separation of the London-based and the India-based. In its current form, though, it ends up approximating a content fork because it does not disambiguate clearly. The Education act, with Macauly, for example, clearly belongs to the CRinI article and is in fact discussed at great length in its [[Company_rule_in_India#Education|Education section]]. [[User:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#B8860B">Fowler&amp;fowler</span>]][[User talk:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#708090">«Talk»</span>]] 19:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)