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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate Part 3 contains various references to Indian traditions and society. Common terms and phrasesadministration army artillery Aurengzebe battalion Bengal Bombay Britain British India Bujfy Bujjy Calcutta Carnatic cavalry Chundah Saheb Cicacole coast Coleroon command Company Company's conquest consequence Council Courts Cuddalore Decan detached districts dominions Dupleix East-India empire English established Europe European expence fame farther favour force France French Goadaveri Government Governor grant Hindoos honour Hyder Ibid Indian army infantry Jageer Khan King King's Lally lands Letter Lord Clive Lord Macartney Madras Mahommed Mahrattahs Majfulipatam Malabar Malabar coast Meer Jaffier ment miles military Mogul Mogul Empire Nabob natives Nazir Jung negociation Nizam Northern Circars officers opinion Orme pany Parliament Patans period pleix political Polygars Pondicherry possession princes principles Proprietors provinces Rajah Rajemundry regiments reign religion render revenue river rupees Salabut Jung sent sepoys settlement Short History Soubah Sunnuds Tanjore territory tion Tippoo trade treaty Trichinopoly troops Ul Dien usurper whole Zemindars Popular passagesPage 940 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Page 940 - Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods ? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Page 940 - He is defpifed and rejected of men ; a Man of forrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him ; He was defpifed, and we efteemed Him not. Page 887 - In this description, namely the foregone description, I must even include almost every zemindar in the Company's territories, which, though it may have been partly occasioned by their own indolence and extravagance, I am afraid must also be in a great measure attributed to the defects of our former system of management, paragraph 20. Page 947 - Some men there are, the pests of society I think them, who pretend a great regard to religion in general, but who take every opportunity of declaiming publicly against that system of religion, or at least against that church-establishment, which is received in Britain. Page 766 - Hindostan must conclude our views to be boundless ; they have such instances of our ambition, that they cannot suppose us capable of moderation: the very nabobs whom we might support would be either covetous of our... Page 947 - I am persuaded that the great philosophers, divines, lawyers, and politicians who exert them, have not yet prepared and agreed upon the plans of a new religion, and of new constitutions in Church and State. Page 947 - ... in Britain, that they are inceflant in their endeavours to puzzle the plaineft thing in the world, and to refine and diftinguifh away the life and ftrength of our conftitution, in favour of the little, prefent, momentary turns, which they are retained to ferve. What now would be the confequence, if all thefe endeavours mould fucceed ? I am perfuaded... Page 871 - that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign powers, do, of right belong to the state... Page 887 - I can assure you that it will be of the utmost importance for promoting the solid interests of the Company that the principal land-holders and traders in the interior parts of the country should be restored to such circumstances as to enable them to support their families with decency, and to give a liberal education to their children according to the customs of their respective castes and religions — that a regular gradation of ranks may be supported, which is nowhere more necessary than in this... Bibliographic information
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