History of India: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present timeAbraham Valentine Williams Jackson Grolier Society, 1907 |
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... England's supremacy . The first chapter reviews in a brief manner the main current of events in India's development prior to the seventeenth century and forms a convenient supplement to the two preceding volumes , and the succeeding ...
... England's supremacy . The first chapter reviews in a brief manner the main current of events in India's development prior to the seventeenth century and forms a convenient supplement to the two preceding volumes , and the succeeding ...
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... England has been mainly directed toward the increase of her sea - power and the enlargement of her foreign commerce - insomuch that , as Sir H. Parnell has said , almost all our wars during the eighteenth century were virtually waged on ...
... England has been mainly directed toward the increase of her sea - power and the enlargement of her foreign commerce - insomuch that , as Sir H. Parnell has said , almost all our wars during the eighteenth century were virtually waged on ...
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... has come in by conquest ; there is no general identity of language or of religion between the rulers and the mass of their subjects ; they accordingly accept changes of govern- and England - 1 dered felt b- S1 1 fa X INTRODUCTION.
... has come in by conquest ; there is no general identity of language or of religion between the rulers and the mass of their subjects ; they accordingly accept changes of govern- and England - 1 dered felt b- S1 1 fa X INTRODUCTION.
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... for predomi- nance in India , and to explain the combination of direct effort and favourable circumstances to which England in the eighteenth century owed her success . اصل CONTENTS CHAPTER I. EARLY COMPETITION FOR INDIAN COMMERCE II.
... for predomi- nance in India , and to explain the combination of direct effort and favourable circumstances to which England in the eighteenth century owed her success . اصل CONTENTS CHAPTER I. EARLY COMPETITION FOR INDIAN COMMERCE II.
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... England and Holland were directed against the Asiatic settlements of Portugal , which were then , as has been said , under the Spanish crown . The desperate struggle of the United Provinces against Philip II ex- posed Spanish vessels to ...
... England and Holland were directed against the Asiatic settlements of Portugal , which were then , as has been said , under the Spanish crown . The desperate struggle of the United Provinces against Philip II ex- posed Spanish vessels to ...
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administration affairs Afghan Afghanistan Ahmad Shah alliance Amir Anglo-Indian annexed army ascendency Asiatic attack Aurangzib authority Bengal Bombay border British dominion British government Burmese Bussy Calcutta Central Asia charter chiefships civil Clive coast command commercial Company's conquest contest Coromandel coast Delhi districts Dupleix Dutch dynasty East India Company eighteenth century emperor enemy England English Company Europe European expedition fighting force foreign France French frontier governor Governor-General Haidarabad Hastings Hindu Holland hostilities Hyder Hyder Ali Indies influence Kabul Karnatic kingdom Lally land lish Lord Clive Lord Cornwallis Lord Wellesley Madras Maratha chiefs maritime ment military Moghul Empire Mohammedan mountains Mysore nations native naval Nawab Nizam northwest officers Oudh Panjab peace Persia Peshwa political Pondicherri possessions princes protection protectorate provinces quarrel Ranjit revenue rivals River Rohillas ruler rulership Russia settlements ships Sikhs Sindhia sovereignty Sutlaj territory tion Tippu trade treaty troops vizir Western whole
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Страница 399 - The welfare of our possessions in the East requires that we should have on our western frontier an ally •who is interested in resisting aggression, and establishing tranquillity, in the place of chiefs ranging themselves in subservience to a hostile power, and seeking to promote schemes of conquest and aggrandizement.
Страница 56 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Страница 297 - Forasmuch as to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation...
Страница 203 - We have at last arrived at that critical period which I have long foreseen ; I mean that period which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can or shall take the whole to ourselves.
Страница 78 - ... captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were becoming a masterless multitude swaying to and fro in the political storm, and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural, that seemed likely to protect them. They were prepared to acquiesce in the assumption of authority by any one who could show himself able to discharge the most elementary functions of government in the preservation of life and property.
Страница 57 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India. Without that we are but a great number of interlopers, united by His Majesty's royal charter, fit only to trade where nobody of power thinks it their interest to prevent us. And upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen, write ten paragraphs concerning their government, their civil and military policy, warfare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning trade.
Страница 48 - The country is ruined by the necessity of defraying the enormous charges required to maintain the splendour of a numerous court, and to pay a large army maintained for the purpose of keeping the people in subjection. No adequate idea can be conveyed of the sufferings of that people. The cudgel and the whip compel them to incessant labour for the benefit of others ; and driven to despair by every kind of cruel treatment, their revolt or their flight is only prevented by the presence of a military...
Страница 203 - It is apparent, from what has been said, that these immense regions might all be reduced by a handful of regular troops. Ten thousand European infantry, together with the Seapoys in the Company's service, are not only sufficient to conquer all India but, with proper policy, to maintain it for ages as an appendage to the British Crown. This position may at first sight appear a paradox to people unacquainted with the genius and disposition of the inhabitants of Hindusthan; but to those who have considered...
Страница 4 - Italian cities had become the principal agents for the importation into Europe of the precious commodities of Asia ; insomuch that in the • fifteenth century the Venetians appeared literally to ' hold the gorgeous East in fee/ for they were not far from possessing the whole of this enormously profitable business. At the end of that century two capital events in the annals of the world's commerce occurred suddenly and almost simultaneously — the discovery of America and the doubling of the Cape...
Страница 185 - ... it is no wonder that the lust of riches should readily embrace the proffered means of its gratification, or that the instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extortion in those cases where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity.