The Making of British India, 1756-1858Ramsay Muir University Press, 1915 - 398 էջ |
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... immediately subject to its attention . This officer holds his commission from the King . But by the nature of the government of Indostan , where all look only to one head , he is never more than an assistant ; he may be a spy ; he ...
... immediately subject to its attention . This officer holds his commission from the King . But by the nature of the government of Indostan , where all look only to one head , he is never more than an assistant ; he may be a spy ; he ...
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... immediately weighed and stood down the river without leaving us a single boat at the ghat1 or possibility of making a general retreat and this before any one attack had been actually made on the fort . On the Governour etc.'s desertion ...
... immediately weighed and stood down the river without leaving us a single boat at the ghat1 or possibility of making a general retreat and this before any one attack had been actually made on the fort . On the Governour etc.'s desertion ...
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... immediately drop down opposite the lane between the new godowns 1 of the factory and the Company's House : ... but the pilot neither that day nor the next would under- take to bring her lower than opposite to Mr. Watt's house where she ...
... immediately drop down opposite the lane between the new godowns 1 of the factory and the Company's House : ... but the pilot neither that day nor the next would under- take to bring her lower than opposite to Mr. Watt's house where she ...
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... immediately , and on the 13th of June our troops began their march .... ( Here follows an account of the Plassey campaign , which is omitted . ) 20. The advantages of the treaty made with the present Nawab are too apparent to want any ...
... immediately , and on the 13th of June our troops began their march .... ( Here follows an account of the Plassey campaign , which is omitted . ) 20. The advantages of the treaty made with the present Nawab are too apparent to want any ...
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... immediately sent a detachment , accom- panied with two field - pieces , to take possession of a tank with high banks , which was advanced about three hundred yards above our grove , and from whence the enemy had considerably annoyed us ...
... immediately sent a detachment , accom- panied with two field - pieces , to take possession of a tank with high banks , which was advanced about three hundred yards above our grove , and from whence the enemy had considerably annoyed us ...
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The Making of British India, 1756-1858: Described in a Series of Dispatches ... Ramsay Muir Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1923 |
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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...