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the nawabs of Bengal and Avadh, Tipu Sultan’s Mysore Sultanate and the great Maratha Confederacy – to take under its own wing the Emperor Shah Alam,
Indian parties
mangled it –
:-D
reaches the age of 4, he is taken from his mother and sent to England to be educated.’
How horrific
scene gave them more pleasure, I will not presume to decide.
:-)
Clive’s first action was to write secretly in cipher to his agent in London to mortgage all his property and to buy as many Company shares as possible.
the dirty dog! :-D :-D
These bent the whole strength of their genius in securing the happiness of their new subjects; nor did they ever abate from their effort, until they had intermarried with the natives, and got children and families from them, and had become naturalized. Their immediate successors having learned the language of the country, behaved to its inhabitants as brothers of one mother and one language … [Hindus and Muslims] have come to coalesce together into one whole, like milk and sugar that have received a simmering.99
Wisdom
and at the same time several ass-loads of small money, beside a quantity of opium, bhang [hashish], tobacco and a variety of other such articles, were distributed severally to each person, according to the kind he was accustomed to use; and this happened every day and without fail.
interesting
maintained ‘a magazine of grain with which they fed fifteen thousand every day for some months, and yet even this could not prevent many thousands dying of
Hard to imagine the logistics
worth 1000 rupees last year, has sent down it is said £60,000* to be
Unreal
Asiatic principles of government.
such arrogance
dragged by foursomes of elephants.
Heavy Guns
His artillery is in very good condition and he has about 1,200 Gujarati bulls in his park [to pull the guns.]’61 Then there was the Swiss adventurer
incredible volume
This was an Irish mercenary called George Thomas, ‘the Raja from Tipperary’, a one-time cabin boy who had jumped ship in Madras and made a name for himself as a talented artilleryman and caster of cannon.
noteworthy
good actor.’
funny
This was partly because every Company officer travelled with at least six servants, a complete set of camp furniture, ‘his stock of linens (at least 24 suits); some dozens of wine, brandy and gin; tea, sugar and biscuits; a hamper of live poultry and his milch goat’.
Wow
Even the ‘alarming mortality’ among the European troops and the ‘infectious exhalations from millions of putrid carcases that cover the whole surface of the earth for twenty miles around the capital’, he wrote, could not blind him to the astonishing loveliness of the city he was engaged in besieging:
Incredible
they are kind to those who are wealthy.’
interesting
worthy, zealous, obedient & gentlemanlike man of excellent temper; but neither of talents, knowledge, habits of business, or firmness equal to his present situation. How the devil did he get here?’
Gas!
enjoyed ourselves until after nine.’
different hours kept!
Shah Alam and the royal family watched the battle anxiously from the roof of the Red Fort.
joke?? he was blind!!! :-D
jolly red-coated clergyman, exhibited in the person
funny
extreme of nobility in his gait, aspect and
quality
He also succeeded in creating a new model of Mughal rule, where the absence of real power lay well disguised beneath the aura of divinely appointed kingship and the gilt screen of high culture and courtly manners, both of which were derived from his Timurid ancestors.
Wonderfully expressed
The Company understood
Smarter than the Uk government then!
