The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 22
... able to capture and hold them . Such a state of affairs was , no doubt , very greatly to the advantage of the Portuguese , who were able to play one chief off against another , as we have seen in the case of Surat . Although Humayun had ...
... able to capture and hold them . Such a state of affairs was , no doubt , very greatly to the advantage of the Portuguese , who were able to play one chief off against another , as we have seen in the case of Surat . Although Humayun had ...
Page 71
... able to secure all that was needed , and make good the complete lack of goods and money in which he was left by the Company , at a time when the Company was in great straits and obliged to abandon not only Caron's factory at Bantam but ...
... able to secure all that was needed , and make good the complete lack of goods and money in which he was left by the Company , at a time when the Company was in great straits and obliged to abandon not only Caron's factory at Bantam but ...
Page 127
... able to seize the treasury , he had also been able to secure his accession , and was pre- paring to dispute his nephew's claims , both of them resting their rights on a real or alleged investiture by the Moghul . Nasir Jang had not at ...
... able to seize the treasury , he had also been able to secure his accession , and was pre- paring to dispute his nephew's claims , both of them resting their rights on a real or alleged investiture by the Moghul . Nasir Jang had not at ...
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administration affairs Afghans alliance amirs appointed army arrived attack Bengal Bombay British Bussy Calcutta capture Carnatic Chait Singh chief claim Clive coast collectors Colonel command Committee Company's servants Cornwallis council court of directors Deccan declared dispatch district diwanni Dupleix Dutch East India Company emperor enemy England English established European favour February force Fort St David French Gleig governor governor-general grant Hastings's Holkar hostilities Hyder Hyder Ali Idem Impey Ja'far Jang Kasim Khan king lakhs land letter Lord Madras Maratha March ment military Mir Kasim Moghul Muhammad Mysore Nana Nana Phadnavis Nandakumar nawab negotiations Nizam officers orders Oudh Parliamentary peace Peshwa political Pondichery Poona Portuguese position possessions president princes province Raghunath Rao raja Ranjit reform revenue Rohillas ruler rupees secured sent settlement Shah Shuja Sikhs Sindhia success Surat territory Tipu trade treaty troops village Warren Hastings Wellesley wrote zamindars