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This book explores the rise of the British Empire in India, focusing on the pivotal role of Robert Clive, a young East India Company clerk who propelled England to become India's dominant power against all odds. In the mid-18th century, the British and French East India Companies clashed for supremacy in India, where the Mughal Empire was in decline. Clive, with audacity and military brilliance, led the British to victory in the Battle of Arcot, turning the tide against the mighty French general Dupleix. His cunning use of diplomacy and alliances, and his daring military tactics, established British dominance in Bengal after the Battle of Plassey. The book delves into Clive's enigmatic character, torn between ambition and guilt. It examines his ruthless methods and controversial legacy, which sparked parliamentary inquiries but also earned him a place as one of the architects of the British Empire. This insightful historical account sheds light on a pivotal era and the rise of a global power.
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Perhaps the fault lies partly with the historians. Mr. Mill's book, though it has undoubtedly great and rare merit, is not sufficiently animated and picturesque to attract those who read for amusement. Orme, inferior to no English historian in style and power of painting, is minute even to tediousness. In one volume he allots, on an average, a closely printed quarto page to the events of every forty-eight hours. The consequence is, that his narrative, though one of the most authentic and one of the most finely written in our language, has never been very popular, and is now scarcely ever read.
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Macaulay's 'Essay on Clive', unlike that on Warren Hastings, is essentially true history, to be prized not only as a masterpiece of English prose, but as a sober historical narrative and judicious criticism. The reason of the difference between the two compositions is that the essayist when discussing the career of Hastings was dazzled by the glare of Burke's eloquence and biased by the weight of Whig tradition, whereas he was free to examine the case of Clive with an unprejudiced mind. Moreover, when writing the story of the victor of Plassey, he could draw his facts from the rich store provided by Orme's masterly narrative, the accuracy of which, save in one detail, is unquestioned.
The solitary exception to Orme's accuracy is his account of the effect produced on the mind of Omichand (Aminchand) by the lamentable deception with which Clive stained his soul. Documentary evidence proves clearly that Orme was misinformed, and that the banker recovered from the shock of disappointment sufficiently to resume the transaction of business with Englishmen and to execute a will in 1759 bequeathing large sums to both Sikh and British charities, including £2,000 for the Foundling Hospital in London, established in 1739. Macaulay is not to be blamed for accepting Orme's authority.
All the biographers of Clive, except Sir John Malcolm, are agreed that his breach of faith to Aminchand cannot be justified. The trick, by reason of the discredit cast on the British reputation for straight dealing, was as impolitic as it was dishonourable. Aminchand's services, as Macaulay truly states, had been great, and the price agreed on, although high, was due.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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