Chapter Title: Growing up in a Company town: The East India Company presence in South Hertfordshire Chapter Author(s): Chris Jeppesen Book Title: East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 Book Editor(s): Margot Finn and Kate Smith Published by: UCL Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21c4tfn.21 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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