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... Bengal , also a European pioneer in his study of Hindu antiquities admired by Voltaire , and who put up a monument to his fellow sufferers , may have been exaggerated , but it has never been disproved . J. H. Little's attack in Bengal ...
... Bengal , also a European pioneer in his study of Hindu antiquities admired by Voltaire , and who put up a monument to his fellow sufferers , may have been exaggerated , but it has never been disproved . J. H. Little's attack in Bengal ...
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... Bengal . Though in 1771 the Company paid a higher dividend , by the following year the crash came . The shares fell by sixty points and the Company had to ask for a loan of £ 1,000,000 from government . Lord North , George III's Chief ...
... Bengal . Though in 1771 the Company paid a higher dividend , by the following year the crash came . The shares fell by sixty points and the Company had to ask for a loan of £ 1,000,000 from government . Lord North , George III's Chief ...
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... Bengal , be- came the first Governor - General , with headquarters at Calcutta . This remarkable man , who saved and consolidated the British hegemony , and thwarted another attempted take - over by the French and their shifting ...
... Bengal , be- came the first Governor - General , with headquarters at Calcutta . This remarkable man , who saved and consolidated the British hegemony , and thwarted another attempted take - over by the French and their shifting ...
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Preface | 9 |
The Island Base | 21 |
The Muscovy Company Persia and | 33 |
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