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Clive: Founder of British India
C. Brad Faught
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Hardback. Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. Clive is a fascinating and important historical figure: a lowly company employee who rose to great heights. Clive's position as both a servant of the East India Company and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure. Series: Military Profiles. Num Pages: 140 pages, 16 B 4 maps; chronology; notes; bibliographic essay; index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; BGH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
Robert Clive (1725–1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived in Madras as a clerk for the East India Company in 1744. Through timely promotion and a clear affinity for military leadership, he proceeded to consolidate the company’s commercial and territorial position in South India before doing the same in the northeast in Bengal. In 1757 company troops under his command defeated the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. This victory set in motion the East India Company’s ascendancy over much of India, paving the way for the 1857 creation of ... Read more
Robert Clive (1725–1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived in Madras as a clerk for the East India Company in 1744. Through timely promotion and a clear affinity for military leadership, he proceeded to consolidate the company’s commercial and territorial position in South India before doing the same in the northeast in Bengal. In 1757 company troops under his command defeated the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. This victory set in motion the East India Company’s ascendancy over much of India, paving the way for the 1857 creation of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Military Profiles
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612341682
SKU
V9781612341682
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About C. Brad Faught
C. BRAD FAUGHT is a professor and chair of the Department of History, Tyndale University College, Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. His books include Gordon: Victorian Hero (Potomac Books, 2008); The New A–Z of Empire: A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History (2011); and Into Africa: The Imperial Life of ... Read more
Reviews for Clive: Founder of British India
An accurate account of events in India in the central third of the eighteenth century is bound to read like a tale of adventure. Clive is a brief and well-balanced account of the way a great military and political leader struggled with the changes of the period and mastered them with results that shaped two centuries of British rule.
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