History of India: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present timeAbraham Valentine Williams Jackson Grolier Society, 1907 |
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... passed for ever out of the hands of the Italian cities , whose gradual commercial decay from that epoch showed plainly where lay the mainspring of their prosperity and political expansion . From the shores of the Mediterranean and the ...
... passed for ever out of the hands of the Italian cities , whose gradual commercial decay from that epoch showed plainly where lay the mainspring of their prosperity and political expansion . From the shores of the Mediterranean and the ...
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... passed away from the Mediterranean cities , from Alexandria and Constantinople , from Venice and Genoa , and was being rapidly taken up by the maritime populations of the Atlantic and the North Sea . The direct waterway had been ...
... passed away from the Mediterranean cities , from Alexandria and Constantinople , from Venice and Genoa , and was being rapidly taken up by the maritime populations of the Atlantic and the North Sea . The direct waterway had been ...
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... passed . But while the land routes traversed recognizable territorial jurisdictions , the waterways lay open to all , and when the various traders began to EASTERN STRIFE AND WESTERN POLITICS 27 jostle each other in 26 EARLY COMPETITION ...
... passed . But while the land routes traversed recognizable territorial jurisdictions , the waterways lay open to all , and when the various traders began to EASTERN STRIFE AND WESTERN POLITICS 27 jostle each other in 26 EARLY COMPETITION ...
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... passed before the English found themselves in quiet posses- sion of the island ; nor was it until 1669 that Bombay and St. Helena were granted in full property to the. BOMBAY IN 1773 . From an old print . BIRD'S - EYE VIEW OF TRINCOMALI .
... passed before the English found themselves in quiet posses- sion of the island ; nor was it until 1669 that Bombay and St. Helena were granted in full property to the. BOMBAY IN 1773 . From an old print . BIRD'S - EYE VIEW OF TRINCOMALI .
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... passed an Act of Parliament granting a Royal Charter to the new Company , who undertook to lend two millions to the government at eight per cent . The money was subscribed with an eagerness that proved the country's wealth , as well as ...
... passed an Act of Parliament granting a Royal Charter to the new Company , who undertook to lend two millions to the government at eight per cent . The money was subscribed with an eagerness that proved the country's wealth , as well as ...
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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.