The History of British India, Volume 3Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820 - Hindus |
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affairs Aliverdi appeared Arcot army arrived attack authority Bahar Bengal Bombay BOOK BOOK IV BOOKIV Bussy Calcutta Calliaud Carnatic cent CHAP chief Chunda Saheb Colonel command Company's servants conduct Court of Directors Deccan declared defence detachment dispute districts dominions Dowla Dupleix East India Company Emperor enemy engaged English Europeans favour Fifth Report fleet force Fort St French garrison Governor Hastings Hyder important Labourdonnais Lally letter Lord Clive Madras Mahomed Reza Khan Mahrattas Meer Causim Meer Jaffier Meeran ment Mogul Moorshedabad Mysoreans Nabob Naib native negotiation Nizam al Mulk Nuncomar officers Omichund Orissa Orme party Patna Peshwa Polygars Pondicherry possession prince proceeded Proprietors province Ragoba Rajah Ramnarain received rendered revenue Reza Khan Rohillas rupees Salabut Jung says Seer Mutakhareen Select Committee sent Sepoys ships Subah Subahdar supra Suraja Dowla Tanjore territory tion trade transactions treasure treaty Trichinopoly troops Vansittart Vizir Zemindars СНАР
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Page 286 - I have been surprised to meet with several English flags flying in places which I have passed; and on the river I do not believe that I passed a boat without one.
Page 294 - The conduct of the Company's servants upon this occasion," says James Mill in his History of British India, " furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame.
Page 455 - The Nazims exacted what they could from the Zemindars, and great Farmers of the Revenue, whom they left at Liberty to plunder all below them reserving to themselves the Prerogative of Plundering them in their Turn, when they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the Spoils of the country.
Page 144 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 456 - to stand forth as Diwan and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues."!
Page 353 - To go farther, is in my opinion, a scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no Governor and Council in their senses can ever adopt it, unless the whole system of the Company's interest be first entirely new modelled.
Page 553 - I declare that I will not suffer Nuncomar to appear ' before the Board as my accuser. I know what belongs to the dignity and character of the first member of this administration. I will not sit at this Board in the character of a criminal. Nor do I acknowledge the members of this Board to be my judges.
Page 287 - A trade was carried on without payment of duties, in the prosecution of which infinite oppressions were committed. English agents or gomastahs, not contented with injuring the people, trampled on the authority of government, binding and punishing the Nabob's officers, whenever they presumed to interfere.
Page 348 - ... 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 380 - Under the Sanction of a Soubah every encroachment that may be attempted by Foreign Powers can effectually be crushed without any apparent Interposition of our own Authority ; and all real Grievances complained of by them, can, through the same channel, be examined into and redressed. Be it therefore always remembered that there is a...