The Rise of the British Dominion in IndiaJ. Murray, 1893 - 288 страница |
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administration affairs Afghan Afghanistan Ahmed Shah alliance allies Amír Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian Government army ascendancy Asia Asiatic attack authority Bengal Bombay British Government Bussy Calcutta campaign Carnatic central India chiefships Clive coast command commercial Company's conquest contest Delhi districts Dupleix Dutch dynasty East India Company eighteenth century enemy England Europe European expedition fighting force foreign France French officers frontier governor Governor-General Governor-Generalship Hastings Holkar Holland hostilities Hyder Hyder Ali Hyderabad imperial influence Lally land leaders Lord Clive Lord Cornwallis Lord Wellesley Madras Mahomedan Maratha chiefs Maratha empire ment military Moghul emperor Moghul empire Mysore Nagpore nation native powers naval Nawab Nizám north-west Oudh peace Persia Peshwa Pindáris political Pondicherry Poona possessions protection provinces Punjab quarrels Rája revenue rivals Rohillas ruler rulership sea-board settlements Sikhs soon sovereignty subsidiary treaties Sutlej river territory tion Tippu trade troops Vizier Warren Hastings Wellesley's western whole
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Страница 38 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India ; without that we are but as 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 which 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 38 - 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 133 - 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 91 - I am confident, before the end of this, they will be near their last gasp in the Carnatic,* unless some very unforeseen event interpose in their favour. The superiority of our squadron, and the plenty of money and supplies of all kinds which our friends on the coast will be furnished with from this province, while the enemy are in total want of everything, without any visible means of redress, are such advantages as, if properly attended to, cannot fail of wholly effecting their ruin in that as well...
Страница 203 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honor, and policy of this nation...
Страница 134 - The inhabitants of the country have no attachment to any obligation ; their forces are neither disciplined, commanded, nor paid as ours are. Can it then be doubted that a large army of Europeans would effectually preserve us sovereigns, not only holding in awe the attempts of any country prince, but rendering us so truly formidable that no French, Dutch, or other enemy will presume to molest us...
Страница 100 - Baber, who invaded India from central Asia in the sixteenth century, has left us his authentic memoirs; it is a book of great historical interest, and nothing more amusing has ever been written by an Asiatic. He says : "When I invaded the country for the fifth time, overthrew Sultan Ibrahim, and subdued the empire of Hindusthan, my servants, the merchants and their servants, and the followers of all friends that were in camp along with me, were numbered, and they amounted to twelve thousand men....
Страница 138 - Bahdr, and Orissa, are the utmost limits of our view on that side of India. On the coast the protection of the Carnatic and the possession of the Sircars .... and on the Bombay side the dependencies thereon, with Salsette, Bassein, and the Castle of Surat. If we pass these bounds...
Страница 120 - ... 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.
Страница 132 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.