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History of India Under Queen Victoria From 1836 to 1880

1886

During the wars which followed the death of Nizam-ul-Mulk founder of a great kingdom in the Dakhan still ruled by his descendants the soldiers of the rival French and English companies were always to be found fighting on opposite sides in behalf of rival claimants for the thrones of Haidrabad and the Garnatic. [...] When the hero of Arkot had become the victor of Plassy and the horrors of the Black Hole had been requited by the overthrow and death of Suraj-mf-daula when the British flag waved over Chandanagand the Dutch at Chinsura had been driven to sue for peace when Knox and his.hardy warriors had rescued Patna and chased the new Moghal Emperor; in 1760 across the borders of Bahia. [...] The Governor-General the members of his Council the Judges of the Supreme Court were all appointed directly or in effect by the Ministcfa of the Crown without much regard for the wishes of the Company by whom their salaries were to be paid.* Pitt's India Bill of 174 carried yet further the principle applied by Lord North. [...] In order to tell aright the story of the first Afghan War we must go back to the time when Ahmad Shah the Durani ruler of Kabul fought and won the great battle of Pitnipat on the plains of Sirhind to the north of Delhi. [...] As if to crown the insensate wickedness of a policy inspired by a foolish dread of Russia and the fear of offending our Sikh ally the true character of the whole proceeding was erelong veiled from English eyes by the Afghan Blue-book of 1839 which :Lade the worse appear the better cause by a process of skilful garbling first exposed some years later by the well-known historian of the Afghan Wa
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Pages
516
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145123
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xi Lionel Trotter view
India Under Queen Victoria
1-104 Lionel Trotter view
Book II. Lord Hardinge and Lord Dalhousie. 1844-1856
105-334 Lionel Trotter view
Book III. Lord Canning. 1556-57
335-505 Lionel Trotter view

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