The Marquess of Hastings, K. G.Clarendon Press, 1893 - 226 pagina's |
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administration advance affairs Amír Khán Apá Sáhib army Asírgarh attack authority Bájí Ráo became Bengal Bhonsla Rájá British Government Calcutta career Central India Colonel Malleson command Company's Cornwallis Deccan districts Division dominions Dupleix Earl effect Elphinstone Empire endeavoured enemy England English force frontier Government of Calcutta Governor-General Gujarát Gúrkhas Gwalior Haidarábád Hindustán Hislop Holkar hostility important Indian history interesting Khándesh Khátmándu latter Lord Hastings Lord Moira Lord Wellesley Lord William Bentinck Malcolm Málwá Maráthá Maráthá chiefs Maráthá princes Marquess of Hastings ment military Moira Mughal Mughal Empire Nágpur Narbadá native princes Nepál Nepalese Nizám occupied Ochterlony officers operations Owen Burne Pathán Peshwá Pindárís Poona position predatory Prinsep Private Journal province Rájputána Ráo's Rawdon river rule Rulers of India Sátára secure Sindhia Singh Sir William Hunter successful Supreme Government territory tion took treaty Trimbakjí troops Ujjain volume Warren Hastings
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Pagina 33 - O ! had we but trusted the rebels' professions, Met their cannon with smiles, and their pikes with concessions ; Tho' they still took an ell when we gave them an inch, They would all have been loyal — like Ballynahinch.
Pagina 215 - It was by preponderance of power,' he wrote to England in 1815, 'that those mines of wealth had been acquired for the Company's treasure, and by preponderance of power alone could they be retained. The supposition that the British power could discard the means of strength and yet enjoy the fruits of it, was one that would certainly be speedily dissipated; in the state of India, were we to be feeble our rule would be a dream, and a very short one...
Pagina 178 - ... settlement, and the consolidation of its relations with the controlling power. The dark age of trouble and violence, which so long spread its malign influence over the fertile regions of Central India, has thus ceased from this time ; and a new era has commenced, we trust, with brighter prospects, — an era of peace, prosperity, and wealth at least, if not of political liberty and high moral improvement.
Pagina 167 - The system which prevails throughout is pretty uniform. There is, first, a native family vested with the nominal sovereignty; then there is a military force essentially British, having British officers, or there is a British cantonment at no great distance, and sometimes both, to assure the submission of the population to whatever may be ordained. For the application of this force, and to watch over the conduct of those who originate the administrative measures, there is every where a British Political...
Pagina 99 - Rao. preparations was to get rid of the greatest pest that society ever experienced." He did not hesitate to take upon himself the undivided responsibility of acting without the full sanction of the home authorities ; for he felt confident the result would justify his determination in the eyes of those authorities, and of the British nation at large. On the morning of the 16th of October...
Pagina 209 - Ochterlony," said the governorgeneral, " you have obliterated a distinction painful for the officers of the Honourable Company, and you have opened the doors for your brothers in arms to a reward, which their recent display of exalted spirit and invincible intrepidity prove could not be more deservedly extended to the officers of any army on earth...
Pagina 92 - Hundreds of women belonging to other villages have drowned themselves in the wells, not being able to survive the pollution they had suffered. All the young girls are carried off by the Pindaris, tied three or four, like calves on a horse, to be sold.
Pagina 187 - Government. The outlay, in providing for the transportation of mortars, shells, and platforms, in due quantity, would certainly have been considerable ;"and it was on that account forborne : the miserable carriages of the country hired for the purpose, where a military exertion was contemplated, were utterly unequal to the service, and constantly failed under the unusual weight, in the deep roads through which they had to pass. Therefore, we never sat down before a place of real strength, furnished...
Pagina 216 - ... .The Indian continent was reduced to order, the irregularities in the Company's territories were gradually removed, its possessions were consolidated, and the paramount position of England was assured. The settlement which the Marquess of Hastings made has been modified, but it has never been undone ; his work was thorough, far-reaching and comprehensive. Modern India is largely based upon the results which he attained. The period of his administration forms an era in the history of our advance...
Pagina 38 - Marquess of Hastings, Earl of Rawdon, and Viscount Loudoun, in the peerage of the United Kingdom...