The Empire Of The Nabobs A Short History Of British India

Author : Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230333755
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Our Indian Empire; Being the History of British India from Its Origin Till Peace Of 1783 written by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...miles of sea: " With regard to the magnitude of our possessions " be not staggered. Assure yourself that the Company " must either be what they are or be annihilated." But even without any view as to the future, and looking solely at the present, Lord Clive might boast, that by his treaty he had secured to his countrymen a net revenue annually of 2,000,000/. He might boast, that he had freed them from any further dependence on the character or the conduct, the intrigues or the cabals, of the successive heirs of Meer Jaffier, whom he reduced, in fact, to little more than high pensioners of state. Nevertheless, it formed a part of the policy of Clive, that the whole detail of the revenue department should still, for some time at least, be directed by a native Prime Minister, resident at Moorshedabad but responsible only to Calcutta. Two competitors appeared for this great oifice--Nuncomar at the head of the Brahmins--Mahomed Reza Khan at the head of the Mussulmans. There seemed a manifest advantage in preferring the former, as representing by far the greater numbers in race and in religion. Such was also the desire of Clive. But on full examination it appeared that the character of Nuncomar was stained by more than one act of fraud and even forgery. Moreover, at this very time, as Clive complains, he was seeking to establish a most pernicious influence on the mind of the young Nabob. "It is really " shocking," writes the hero of Plassey, " what a set of "miserable and mean wretches Nuncomar has placed " about him; men who the other day were horse-keepers." On the whole, therefore, after great deliberation, the choice of Clive fell upon Mahomed Reza Khan. Having thus dealt with the...