The Making of British India, 1756-1858Ramsay Muir University Press, 1915 - 398 էջ |
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... affairs were once more thriving , and they were full of delight . But then opposition sprang up . It was realised that Hastings had actually assumed direct control of the government of Bengal . Henceforward he was the object of ...
... affairs were once more thriving , and they were full of delight . But then opposition sprang up . It was realised that Hastings had actually assumed direct control of the government of Bengal . Henceforward he was the object of ...
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... affairs a result that would never have followed Hastings ' policy . V - But the very danger of the situation which had been pro- duced by abstention from defined relations with Indian states gave an opportunity to the masterful and self ...
... affairs a result that would never have followed Hastings ' policy . V - But the very danger of the situation which had been pro- duced by abstention from defined relations with Indian states gave an opportunity to the masterful and self ...
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... affairs . A long series of enactments , beginning with the Acts of 1773 and 1784 , had already steadily increased the power of the British Government to intervene in the political affairs of the East India Company . But the Company had ...
... affairs . A long series of enactments , beginning with the Acts of 1773 and 1784 , had already steadily increased the power of the British Government to intervene in the political affairs of the East India Company . But the Company had ...
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... affairs as being administered , not by salaried agents , but by groups of individual traders , who in return for a small honorarium with board and lodging , and favourable 19 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 19-33 Introduction, p 19; Documents: 1 ...
... affairs as being administered , not by salaried agents , but by groups of individual traders , who in return for a small honorarium with board and lodging , and favourable 19 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 19-33 Introduction, p 19; Documents: 1 ...
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... affairs of India are solely under his regulation ; from him issue out all orders , by him all prefer- ment is disposed ; by which means the Council are biassed by his arbitrament . The whole mass of the Company's servants may be com ...
... affairs of India are solely under his regulation ; from him issue out all orders , by him all prefer- ment is disposed ; by which means the Council are biassed by his arbitrament . The whole mass of the Company's servants may be com ...
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Adalat administration affairs Afghan Afghanistan alliance allies Amirs appointed army attack authority Bengal Berar Board Bombay British government British power Calcutta Carnatic chief civil Clive collectors Company's servants confederacy Cornwallis Court of Directors districts Diwani dominions Dost Mahomed Khan East India Company effect Empire endeavour enemies engaged English established European force French frontier gomastas Governor Governor-General in Council Hindu Holkar Honourable hostilities inhabitants interests Jafar justice Kabul Kasim Kasimbazar lacs land Lord Madras Mahomed Reza Khan Mahratta measures ment military Mir Jafar Mir Kasim Mogul Mogul Empire Murshidabad Mysore native Nawab Nizam Nuncomar object officers oppression Oudh peace Persia person Peshwa Pindaris plunder Poona possession present President princes principles protection provinces Punjab received revenue rupees ryots settlement Shah Sikh Sindhia Singh Siraj-uddaula territories tion Tipu trade treaty of Bassein troops Warren Hastings Wellesley whole zemindars
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Էջ 304 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Էջ 284 - We should look upon India not as a temporary possession, but as one which is to be maintained permanently, until the natives shall in some future age have abandoned most of their superstitions and prejudices and become sufficiently enlightened to frame a regular government for themselves, and to conduct and preserve it.
Էջ 388 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Էջ 383 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Էջ 381 - Whereas, for divers weighty reasons, we have resolved by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, to take upon ourselves the government of the territories in India heretofore administered in trust for us by the Honourable East India Company...
Էջ 299 - Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...
Էջ 386 - State, to conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of and the correspondence with India...
Էջ 299 - I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Էջ 296 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Էջ 200 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...