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The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774

The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774 Available

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Contributor:
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774
Carnac, John, 1716-1800
National Library of Wales
Series:
Power and preachers: India under colonial rule.
Power and preachers: India under colonial rule
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
East India Company.
History.
Politics and government.
International relations.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--India--Sources.
Great Britain.
India--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Sources.
India.
India--Politics and government--997-1765--Sources.
India--History--18th century--Sources.
Genre:
Electronic reference sources.
Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (18 Volumes, 168 Documents (24,508 Pages)).
Contained In:
British Online Archives
Other Title:
Taking India, how the military established Company rule, 1752-1774 : the Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac, 1752-1774.
Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac, 1752-1774
Indian papers of Clive and Carnac
Place of Publication:
Wakefield, U.K. : Microform Academic Publishers, [2009]
System Details:
data file
Summary:
These key East India Company employees worked in mid-18th century Bengal. The papers of Col. Robert Clive and Brig.-Gen. John Carnac cover the transfer of power from the Mughal Empire to the British Empire. Most of these papers focus on Col. Clive, with his items covering his victory over the Nawab of Bengal in 1757 at Plassey. Other events include the 'Black Hole of Calcutta' incident and the thorough defeat of the Dutch in 1759. You can also discover what happened to Clive's chief administrator of revenues, Maharaja Nandakumara. Brig.-Gen. John Carnac led the British forces in India during from 1760 to 1761. Carnac fought and defeated the French-supported forces of the Mughal Emperor, Shah Alam II, near Bihar. In 1764 he returned to the British command, defeating the Marathas in 1765. These papers enable the reader to contrast how these commanders practised the EIC's approach to running India, combining commercial with growing political power.
Contents:
Original correspondence, 1752-1774
Contemporary transcripts [of correspondence, 1756-1760]
India financial papers, 1752-1774
Civil administration of Bengal papers, 1758-1766
Military administration of Bengal papers, [c.1750s]-1771
Papers of the Calcutta Council and its committees, 1757-1768
Records of the Calcutta mayor's court, [c.1765]-1766
East India Company records, 1752-1772
Jagir papers, 1758-1767
Acquired India papers, 1727-[c.1763]
Supplementary papers concerning the trial of Nandakumara
The correspondence of Brigadier-General John Carnac, 1760-1769
Clive's estate administration papers, 1761-1780
Clive's household management papers, 1755-1775
Clive's political papers, 1764-1775
Clive's attorneys' papers, 1764-1768
Clive's executors' papers, 1774-1796
Clive's personal papers, 1739-1775.
Notes:
Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 20, 2011).
"Ref. no. 9781851171859."
"Holder of originals: National Library of Wales."
Title from title screen.
OCLC:
1181951301
Publisher Number:
9781851171859
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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