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By John F. Riddick

This ebook is a background of British India from 1599 to 1947. it truly is divided into 3 elements addressing political historical past, topical experiences, and a set of 4 hundred biographies of noteworthy English women and men who performed a task within the construction of British India.

As the Elizabethan period approached its finish, English lifestyles exuded a excessive experience of strength and optimism that drove males to the ends of the earth. The trap of wealth within the spices of the East Indies correlated good with English naval strengths. In London, the East India corporation set the nationwide imaginative and prescient of festival with the Portuguese, Dutch and French whereas in India it constructed the ports of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Britain ruled India's political panorama for over three hundred years, but within the 20th century, the emergence of Gandhi and his use of civil disobedience shook the British govt to its foundations. by means of March 1947, Lord Mountbatten had little extra selection than to supply Indian independence or see it taken through Indians themselves.

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29 Jan. 1791. Lord Cornwallis took command of the Company forces facing Tipu. His plans called for his attack on Tipu from the east and for General Sir Robert Abercromby (1740-1827), Governor and Commander-inChief of Bombay, to join him at Seringapatam from the west. 7 Mar. 1791. Lord Cornwallis captured the city of Bangalore and then on March 21 took its fort. Bangalore proved to be a major supply pOint in preparation for a siege of Seringapatam. 13 May 1791. At Arrakerry the British routed 1792-93.

In return he received a pension of £40,000 annually. This concluded a messy situation extending back to 1773 and the deposing of the State's Raja and the related arrest in 1776 and imprisonment and then death in 1777 of Lord Pigot (17191777), Governor of Bombay. 1800. Major-General Arthur Wellesley, later the I" Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), conducted a successful campaign against Dhundia who had escaped the Mysore defeat at Seringapatam. With an army numbering 40,000 Dhundia had roved Mysore and Southern Maratha country.

Nawab of Oudh. had been in conspiracy with Chait Singh. Company forces captured the fort at Fyzabad. where the two begums were staying. and confiscated some fifty-five lakhs for the Company treasury. ••• 1783-1830. The issue of the Nawab of Carnatlc's debts came to the forefront when Fox's India Bill of 1783 was discussed in the House of Commons. From 1767 to 1777. the History of British India 25 Nawab had become indebted to the servants of the East India Company to the amount of £3,440,000. The Company arranged for the Nawab to make annual payments of£480,OOO and saw the debt paid off by 1804.

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