The History of British India, Том 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 - 777 страници |
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... Military Allowances - Its Effects - Clive resigns , and Verelst succeeds - Proceedings in England relative to the Rate of Dividend on Company's Stock - Financial Difficulties - Verelst resigns , and Cartier succeeds .. 234 CHAPTER VIII ...
... Military Allowances - Its Effects - Clive resigns , and Verelst succeeds - Proceedings in England relative to the Rate of Dividend on Company's Stock - Financial Difficulties - Verelst resigns , and Cartier succeeds .. 234 CHAPTER VIII ...
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... military , in the different stations abroad ; on the demand for alterations , and the applications made for leave of absence , or leave to return : All complaints of grievances , and all pecuniary demands on the Company , were decided ...
... military , in the different stations abroad ; on the demand for alterations , and the applications made for leave of absence , or leave to return : All complaints of grievances , and all pecuniary demands on the Company , were decided ...
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... military class , promoted according to the rule of seniority , unless where directions from home prescribed aberration . quit the track which on any occasion they have formed ; and under the ignorance of their manners and character ...
... military class , promoted according to the rule of seniority , unless where directions from home prescribed aberration . quit the track which on any occasion they have formed ; and under the ignorance of their manners and character ...
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... Military Forces maintained within his presidency . These consisted , partly of the recruits sent out in the ships of the Company ; partly of deserters from the other European na- tions settled in India , French , Dutch , and Portuguese ...
... Military Forces maintained within his presidency . These consisted , partly of the recruits sent out in the ships of the Company ; partly of deserters from the other European na- tions settled in India , French , Dutch , and Portuguese ...
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... military service , and called Sepoys , from the Indian term Sipahi , equivalent to soldier . They were made to use the musket , but remained chiefly armed in the fashion of the country , with sword and target ; they wore the Indian ...
... military service , and called Sepoys , from the Indian term Sipahi , equivalent to soldier . They were made to use the musket , but remained chiefly armed in the fashion of the country , with sword and target ; they wore the Indian ...
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Страница 311 - It was an innovation by which the whole property of the country, and along with it the administration of justice, were placed upon a new foundation...
Страница 238 - ... the vast fortunes acquired in the inland trade have been obtained by a scene of the most tyrannic and oppressive conduct that ever was known in any age or country.
Страница 237 - Upon my arrival, I am sorry to say, I found your affairs in a condition so nearly desperate as would have alarmed any set of men whose sense of honour and duty to their employers had not been estranged by the too eager pursuit of their own immediate advantages.
Страница 310 - 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."!
Страница 258 - 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...
Страница 304 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, did of right belong to the state. " 2. That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emolument of persons intrusted with any civil or military power of the state is illegal.
Страница 99 - 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.
Страница 4 - Company has been an oligarchy, in fact. So far from meddling too much, the Court of Proprietors have not attended to the common affairs even sufficiently for the business of inspection: And the known principles of human nature abundantly secured that unfortunate result. To watch, to scrutinize, to inquire, is labour, and labour is pain. To confide, to take for granted that all is well, is easy, is exempt from labour, and, to the great mass of mankind, comparatively delightful. On all ordinary occasions,...
Страница 240 - 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.
Страница 216 - Your deliberations on the inland trade have laid open to us a scene of most cruel oppression; the poor of the country, who used always to deal in salt, beetlenut, and tobacco, are now deprived of their daily bread by the trade of the Europeans.