India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of HindustanSteel, Flora Annie Webster
History
India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan
Steel, Flora Annie Webster
India -- History
Hyder-Ali et Alia--Treaty of Paris harmful--Hyder-Ali's
lawlessness--Colonel Smith holds his own--Treaties--Money-bags--
Plunder--Price of India stock goes down--Financial pressure.
CHAPTER IX
Warren Hastings--Early career--Supporter of Clive--Makes many
enemies--Treaty of Nawâb of Oude and Mahrattas--English
mercenaries--Hastings appointed first Governor-General--
Reconstruction of appointments under new Act--Mr Francis--
Persistent enmity--Dissensions in the Council--Incident of
Nuncomâr--Hastings in minority--In majority--Financial
reforms--Francis refuses assent or criticism--Suggests the
Great Mistake--Hastings relieved of office--Refuses to accept
dismissal--Two Councils, two Governor-Generals--Supreme
Court decides for Hastings--Incomprehensible conspiracies in
Mahratta Court--Hyder Ali again gives trouble--Dies--His
son, Tippoo Sahib--Case of the Râjah of Benares--Of the
Begums of Oude--Harsh terms imposed on Nawâb of Oude.
CHAPTER X
Administrations and impeachments--Review of Clive's and Warren
Hastings' careers--Attempt to unravel the clues--Influx to India
of foreigners--Walter Reinhardt--Begum Sumroo--George
Thomas--General view of India.
CHAPTER XI
The Board of Control appointed by the Crown--Responsibilities--
Lord Cornwallis--Jâwan Bakht--Civil and military reforms--
Tippoo Sahib again--Four years' wear--Permanent settlement
evolved at Wimbledon--Immediate effects--France and
England at war--Renewed trouble in Oude--Death of Tippoo
Sahib--English action in Oude--Threatening outlook--
Mahratta jealousy--Assaye--Marquis of Wellesley--First
interview of conquering England with Great Moghul--Mutiny at
Vellore--Lord Minto--Debt of India.
CHAPTER XII
The extinction of monopoly--Church establishment formed--
Parliament--History of cotton trade--Earl Moira--War in Nepaul--
Râjputana smouldering--Kishen Kumâri--Lord Hastings--
Final Mahratta war--More trouble in Oude--Lord Amherst--
Burmese war--Lord William Bentinck--Policy of noninterference--
Disastrous result--Trouble in Oude--Diplomacy with
Shâh-Sujah--The short sea passage.
CHAPTER XIII
Freedom and frontiers--Tea--India thrown open to the world--
Struggle over Governor--Generalship--Lord Auckland--
Macaulay's Penal Code--Fresh trouble in Oude--Embassy to
Dost Mahomed--Sir Alexander Burnes--Disaster at Kabul--
Lord Ellenborough--Sir Henry Hardinge--Annexation of
Punjâb.
CHAPTER XIV
Manners, morals, and missionaries--Second Burmese war--Annexation
of Oude--Unrest--Causes of it--Evangelical wave--Successions--
Annexations--General review of Oude--Question.
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