The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in IndiaJ. Murray, 1894 - 355 pages |
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administration affairs Afghan Afghanistan Ahmed Shah alliance Anglo-Indian army ascendancy Asiatic attack Aurangzeb authority Bengal Bombay British government Bussy Calcutta Carnatic central Asia chiefships civil coast colonies command commercial Company's conquest contest Coromandel coast Delhi despatched districts dominion Dupleix Dutch East India Company eighteenth century emperor enemy England English Company established Europe European fighting force foreign France French frontier governor Governor-General Governor-Generalship Hastings Holland hostilities Hyder Hyder Ali Hyderabad imperial Indies kingdom Lally land Lord Clive Lord Cornwallis Lord Wellesley Madras Mahomedan Maratha chiefs Maratha empire maritime ment military ministers Moghul empire Mysore nations native powers naval Nawab Nizám north-west officers Oudh peace Persia Peshwa political Pondicherry Poona Portuguese possessions princes principle protection protectorate provinces Punjab quarrels Rája revenue rivals Rohillas ruler rulership Russia seize settlements Sikhs soon Spain Sutlej territory tion Tippu trade treaty troops upper India Vizier Warren Hastings Wellesley's whole
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Page 139 - ... 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.
Page 271 - 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.
Page 46 - 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...
Page 210 - 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...
Page 46 - ... 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.
Page 47 - Madras that they looked to them to "establish such a politic of civil and military power, and create and secure such a large revenue as may be the foundation of a large, well-grounded, sure English dominion in India for all time to come.
Page 171 - That all acquisitions, made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign Princes, do of right belong to the state; 2.
Page 42 - 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...
Page 226 - It must be admitted that Lord Wellesley subordinated the feelings and interests of his ally to paramount considerations of British policy in a manner that showed very little patience, forbearance, or generosity.
Page 121 - 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...