Paper short abstract:

Entitled "Hyderabad's Palmer and Company Revisited," the paper argues that, rather than being infamous interlopers in Hyderabad's affairs, the members of this Eurasian-Gujarati banking firm were crucial indigenous participants in the state's tumultuous early ninettenth-century politics.

Paper long abstract:

Entitled "Hyderabad's Palmer and Company Revisited," the paper argues that, rather than being infamous interlopers in Hyderabad's affairs, the members of this Eurasian-Gujarati banking firm were crucial indigenous participants in the state's tumultuous early ninettenth-century politics. Using oral history as well as written sources, the insider view of this firm is upheld against the view of the Resident Charles Metcalfe of the East India Company and subsequent historians who have followed that lead.