Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in IndiaT. Fisher Unwin, 1899 - 318 страница |
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... influence on his subsequent career , of his idleness and wildness as a schoolboy . That Clive as a schoolboy was idle and somewhat wild may be freely admitted , but it must not be forgotten that one of his masters predicted with ...
... influence on his subsequent career , of his idleness and wildness as a schoolboy . That Clive as a schoolboy was idle and somewhat wild may be freely admitted , but it must not be forgotten that one of his masters predicted with ...
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... influence there , and so consolidating English influence in the Carnatic , then nominally a dependency of the Subahdár of the Dekhan . With this view it was proposed to enlist on the English side the co - operation of the Péshwa , 1 and ...
... influence there , and so consolidating English influence in the Carnatic , then nominally a dependency of the Subahdár of the Dekhan . With this view it was proposed to enlist on the English side the co - operation of the Péshwa , 1 and ...
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... influence in the Carnatic , had been recalled , and his successor , M. Godehieu , was a weak man , devoid of ambition and anxious only for peace . This anxiety was probably stimulated by the arrival at Fort St David of a British ...
... influence in the Carnatic , had been recalled , and his successor , M. Godehieu , was a weak man , devoid of ambition and anxious only for peace . This anxiety was probably stimulated by the arrival at Fort St David of a British ...
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... influence . He had obtained possession for the French of the four northern districts of what is now the Madras Presidency , commonly known as the Northern Sirkárs . Having recently quarrelled with the Nizam , Salábat Jung , whom he had ...
... influence . He had obtained possession for the French of the four northern districts of what is now the Madras Presidency , commonly known as the Northern Sirkárs . Having recently quarrelled with the Nizam , Salábat Jung , whom he had ...
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... influential position in Bengal . After the capture of Chandernagore , Clive's distrust of the Nawab was intensified , not only by the in- formation supplied by Mr Watts of his intrigues with . the French , but by his refusal to allow ...
... influential position in Bengal . After the capture of Chandernagore , Clive's distrust of the Nawab was intensified , not only by the in- formation supplied by Mr Watts of his intrigues with . the French , but by his refusal to allow ...
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administration Admiral advantage appointed Arcot army arrival attack battle betel nut British Calcutta carried cent Chandernagore charges civil and military Clive's views Colonel command Company's servants conduct consequence Council Court of Directors Court of Proprietors defence Diwáni Dupleix Dutch duty East India Company enemies English established Europeans favour force Fort St David fortune French friends gentlemen George Grenville Governor of Bengal Hastings honour House of Commons India House inland trade interest Kásim Katwa Khán lakhs letter Lord Clive Madras Mahratta Maskelyne means ment Mir Jafar Murshidabad mutiny native Nawab Názim ud Daulah never nut and tobacco occasion officers Omichand opinion orders Oudh Patna Plassey Pondicherry possessions proceedings proposed Rájá regard resolution return to England revenues rupees Select Committee sent Sepoys situation St David Stringer Lawrence Sullivan taken tion took treaty Trichinopoly troops Vansittart Verelst Warren Hastings Watson whole
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Страница 316 - That Robert Lord Clive did at the same time render " great and meritorious services to his country.
Страница 139 - The servants of the Company obtained — not for their employers, but for themselves — a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and sell cheap.
Страница 211 - I can call my own except my paternal fortune of £$OO per annum, and which has been in the family for ages past. But upon this I am content to live, and perhaps I shall find more real content of mind and happiness therein than in the trembling affluence of an unsettled fortune.
Страница 115 - I observe, in some measure engaged the public attention ; but much more may yet in time be done, if the Company will exert themselves in the manner the importance of their present possessions and future prospects deserves. I have represented to them in the strongest terms the expediency of sending out and keeping up constantly such a force as will enable them to embrace the first opportunity of further aggrandizing themselves ; and I dare pronounce, from a thorough knowledge of this country government...
Страница 295 - I have not anything left which I can call my own except my paternal fortune of £,500 per annum, and which has been in the family for ages past.
Страница 295 - My defence will be heard at that bar ; but before I sit down, I have one request to make to the House, — that, when they come to decide upon my honour, they will not forget their own.
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Страница 198 - Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal.
Страница 75 - I feel the greatest anxiety at the little intelligence I receive from Mfr Jafar, and if he is not treacherous, his sangfroid or want of strength will, I fear, overset the expedition. I am trying a last effort by means of a Brahmin to prevail upon him to march out and join us.
Страница 295 - But to be called, after sixteen years have elapsed, to account for my conduct in this manner, and after an uninterrupted enjoyment of my property, to be questioned and considered as obtaining it unwarrantably, is hard indeed ! and a treatment I should not think the British Senate capable of.