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5 giorni fa · As he shows, a generation of British officials from Robert Clive to Warren Hastings walked backwards into their colonial future, trying to paper over the fissures and ruptures that separated them from the Indian or British pasts by talking about India’s ancient constitutions and customary rights.
1 giorno fa · In parallel Robert Clive conspired with Jagat Seth, Omichand and Mir Jafar to install the latter on the musnud of Bengal, a plan that they would implement in June 1757. [25] The East India Company's victories at the Battle of Plassey (1757) and the Battle of Buxar (against the Nawabs of Bengal and Oudh in 1764) led to the abolition of local rule (Nizamat) in Bengal in 1793.
5 giorni fa · To give two practical examples. The book shows how the East India’s Company’s presence in India from 1740s–1760s, including the actions of India’s supposed ‘conqueror’ Robert Clive, were shaped most of all by the dynamics of Maratha politics.
5 giorni fa · The company's victory under Robert Clive in the 1757 Battle of Plassey and another victory in the 1764 Battle of Buxar (in Bihar) consolidated the company's power and forced emperor Shah Alam II to appoint it the diwan, or revenue collector, of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
3 giorni fa · Asimov Collective/The city as an information-processing unit. Social and political theorists have tied the emergence of cities to the origin of civilization since the earliest written records we have found. The perhaps four-thousand-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, which shaped and inspired later literature, including the Bible, opens on what is ...
5 giorni fa · East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774 This link opens in a new window Contains personal and professional papers of two East India Company employees, Colonel Robert Clive and Brigadier-General John Carnac.
6 giorni fa · The British had come to understand that they were in grave jeopardy. The only thing that gave them any hope was that Mohammad Ali, their protege, still controlled Trichinopoly. At this point, Robert Clive, the Company’s Clerk at the time, suggests attacking Arcot. Arcot was occupied after this proposal was approved.
