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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... soon obtained another farman by which the king of Golconda remitted the 4 per cent . duties for an annual payment of 3000 " old pagodas " ( 25,000 guilders ) . Even this did not save the Company from the exactions of the local ...
... soon obtained another farman by which the king of Golconda remitted the 4 per cent . duties for an annual payment of 3000 " old pagodas " ( 25,000 guilders ) . Even this did not save the Company from the exactions of the local ...
Page 54
... soon spreading over the whole south and south - west of the island , and secretly encouraged by the king of Kandi . The Dutch suffered some serious reverses and the situation might have taken a disastrous turn , had not in 1737 a ...
... soon spreading over the whole south and south - west of the island , and secretly encouraged by the king of Kandi . The Dutch suffered some serious reverses and the situation might have taken a disastrous turn , had not in 1737 a ...
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... soon as war broke out Pondichery was immediately besieged and quickly taken , and the other factories could offer no resistance ; so that the revolu- tionary spirits soon found themselves under a foreign and military control , while of ...
... soon as war broke out Pondichery was immediately besieged and quickly taken , and the other factories could offer no resistance ; so that the revolu- tionary spirits soon found themselves under a foreign and military control , while of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz | 12 |
Later governors | 19 |
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