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 152
... Clive and Mir Ja'far now moved towards Patna . At first Clive had been decidedly hostile towards Ramnarayan . Immediately after the battle of Plassey he had sent Coote up with a detachment in order to seize Law and any other Frenchmen ...
... Clive and Mir Ja'far now moved towards Patna . At first Clive had been decidedly hostile towards Ramnarayan . Immediately after the battle of Plassey he had sent Coote up with a detachment in order to seize Law and any other Frenchmen ...
Page 175
... Clive's arrival , and still more so to have invested the new nawab with powers which it afterwards would have been found expedient to diminish . Unfor- tunately the council marred their conduct by making this settlement the occasion of ...
... Clive's arrival , and still more so to have invested the new nawab with powers which it afterwards would have been found expedient to diminish . Unfor- tunately the council marred their conduct by making this settlement the occasion of ...
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... Clive resolved therefore to reorganise the internal trade , to place it on a wholly new basis , and to employ the profits so as to secure handsome salaries for the senior servants of the Company ; and meanwhile to call up from Madras a ...
... Clive resolved therefore to reorganise the internal trade , to place it on a wholly new basis , and to employ the profits so as to secure handsome salaries for the senior servants of the Company ; and meanwhile to call up from Madras a ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz | 12 |
Later governors | 19 |
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