Tradition
Company rule in India
Overview
rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent (1757–1858)
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In pursuance of this treasonable project, (treasonable on the part of the English,) they extinguished the Company as a sovereign power in that part of India; they withdrew the Company's garrisons out of all the forts and strongholds of the Carnatic; they declined to receive the ambassadors from foreign courts, and remitted them to the Nabob of Arcot; they fell upon, and totally destroyed, the oldest ally of the…
Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
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Oude, with its dependent provinces, is 53,286 square miles, not a great deal less than England. The Carnatic, with Tanjore and the Circars, is 65,948 square miles, very considerably larger than England; and the whole of the Company's dominions, comprehending Bombay and Salsette, amounts to 281,412 square miles; which forms a territory larger than any European dominion, Russia and Turkey excepted. Through all that…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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It augmented, however, their trading stock, it being equally liable with the other three millions two hundred thousand pounds, to the losses sustained, and debts contracted by the company in prosecution of their mercantile projects. From 1708, or at least from 1711, this company, being delivered from all competitors, and fully established in the monopoly of the English commerce to the East Indies, carried on a…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to Company rule in India; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Company rule in India
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Executive (government)
- Evangelicalism
- French Revolution
- Persian language
- Anglicanism
- Iran
- Indo-European languages
- Bengal Presidency
- James Mill
- Latin
- Assam
- Autonomy
- Mumbai
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Indian subcontinent
- Uttar Pradesh
- Mughal Empire
- Brahmin
- Punjab
- Qing dynasty
- Sanskrit
- Sharia
- Sindh
Place in the tradition
Part of Neo-Vedanta.