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The Nabobs of Madras

1926

The Company's servants enjoyed the pick of the trade of all the Company's settlements; and the higher you rose in the service the larger the share which you would get. [...] These had in general been much longer in the country than had the English families; and in the early days had enjoyed the privilege of prviding the sons of the latter with wives of European name and at least something of European blood. [...] Even in the virtuous old days the governor had accepted yearly a commission from the mechants who had supplied goods to the Company and when according to custom the arrack or the betel monopoly was farmed out the farmer also according to custom 2 52 6 THE NABOBS OF M4DRAS would visit the governor with an acknowledgment of his gratitude. [...] His career at Madras culminated in the seizure of the governor and the assumption of power by a clique the real heads of which were Benfield himself and the Nawab. [...] He sold posts; he employed the"30 THE NABOBS OF MADRAS English troops on unauthorised expeditions for the behoof of the N.twab's creditors of whom he was one; when ordered to support the little state of Travancore he tried to induce the raja to pay for the assistance which he had been ordered to give; finally he ran off with a sum of money which had been entrusted to him by the Nawab for the Comp
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Frontmatter
i-x Henry Dodwell view
Chapter I the Voyage to India
1-10 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter II Madras in 1750
11-24 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter III the Company’s Servant
25-38 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter IV the Company—s Officer—Part I
39-56 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter V the Company—s Officer—Part II
57-73 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter VI the Soldier
74-91 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter VII the Chaplain
92-107 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter VIII the Surgeon
108-124 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter IX the Merchant
125-147 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter X the Lawyer
148-163 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter XI Houses and Households
164-181 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter XII the Standard of Taste
182-196 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter XIII the Ladies
197-210 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter XIV Social Intercourse
211-233 Henry Dodwell view
Chapter XV the Homeward Voyage and Some Reflections
234-244 Henry Dodwell view
Appendix
245-263 Henry Dodwell view

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