 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...the inevitable development of British dominion in India was made by the emphatic declaration that ' to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation ', and by the formal positive enactment that ' it should not be lawful... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Great Britain - 1921 - 454 pages
...consonant with the declaration of Parliament made in Pitt's Act of 1784 and repeated in 1793, that 'to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation '. He refused in 1788 to assist the son of Shah Alam, then residing... | |
 | Charles Strachan Sanders Higham - Commonwealth countries - 1921 - 292 pages
...extension of British power, or treaties implying assistance to native princes were forbidden, because " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour and policy of this nation " ; and a strict inquiry into the land and revenue system of Bengal... | |
 | Jeremy Black - Business & Economics - 1994 - 578 pages
...expansion, there was also a reluctance to extend territorial control. The India Act of 1784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'. 133 Three years later, Carmarthen complained that in the Lords... | |
 | Barbara S. Groseclose - Architecture - 1995 - 170 pages
...magistrate. In addition, the Company militia was "Europeanized."3 Although the India Act had announced that "to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...India . . . are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation," Cornwallis performed with equal vigor militarily.4 He resumed... | |
 | Jeremy Black - History - 2000 - 350 pages
...Ocean' (VIL 71). Nevertheless, the India Act passed by the British Parliament in 1784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'.61 The European powers were more concerned with fighting each other,... | |
 | Jeremy Black - History - 1998 - 284 pages
...most marked in the case of Britain, the leading imperial power. The India Act of 1 784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'. Even so, in the ten years prior to Britain's entry into the French... | |
 | G.S.Chhabra - India - 2005 - 418 pages
...the policy initiated by Clive. Pitt's India Act of 1784 rather laid down the policy in clear words: "Whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, honour and the policy of this nation, the Governor-General and his Council are not without the express... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - History - 2006 - 424 pages
...the trading aspects of its operation. Pitt went so far as to insert a clause in the act stating that "to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion...in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation."40 Cornwallis, who went to India as governor-general in 1786,... | |
 | H. V. Bowen - History - 2005 - 296 pages
...interests. 7 This was especially the case after 1784 when a clause in Pitt's India Act had declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation', and decreed that all wars other than those of self-defence... | |
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And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation... 
