The Making of British India, 1756-1858Ramsay Muir University Press, 1915 - 398 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 56–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... respect for and maintenance of Indian customs as a fundamental principle . Hastings , in short , saw what his successors only slowly learnt , that if the British power in India was to be lasting it must become an Indian power . In the ...
... respect for and maintenance of Indian customs as a fundamental principle . Hastings , in short , saw what his successors only slowly learnt , that if the British power in India was to be lasting it must become an Indian power . In the ...
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... respect for Indian tradition and custom replaced the attitude of the generation of Cornwallis ; and the land- settlements of Munro in Madras , of Elphinstone in the Peshwa's territories , and of Metcalfe in the Delhi district were ...
... respect for Indian tradition and custom replaced the attitude of the generation of Cornwallis ; and the land- settlements of Munro in Madras , of Elphinstone in the Peshwa's territories , and of Metcalfe in the Delhi district were ...
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... respect for Indian custom and opinion which had been one of the healthiest features of the previous age . The rapid series of social and economic changes which he hurried on produced a feeling of unrest , a readiness to believe that the ...
... respect for Indian custom and opinion which had been one of the healthiest features of the previous age . The rapid series of social and economic changes which he hurried on produced a feeling of unrest , a readiness to believe that the ...
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... respect . They accompany all their discourse with continual reverences ; they prostrate themselves before him at taking leave ; they put their hands on their eyes , then on their breast , and lastly on the earth , to testify they are ...
... respect . They accompany all their discourse with continual reverences ; they prostrate themselves before him at taking leave ; they put their hands on their eyes , then on their breast , and lastly on the earth , to testify they are ...
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... respect . I persuade myself the importance of your possessions now in Bengal will determine you to send out , not only a large and early supply of troops and good officers , but of capable young gentlemen for the civil branches of your ...
... respect . I persuade myself the importance of your possessions now in Bengal will determine you to send out , not only a large and early supply of troops and good officers , but of capable young gentlemen for the civil branches of your ...
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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...