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Samuel Smiles reminds us that until we brought the railways to India, we had little to boast about as an imperial power.
… He describes how this peculiarly British invention had by the 1870s already reached most European countries and beyond, and of course he could not fail to mention the railways of India … When Edmund Burke, in 1783, arraigned the British Government for their neglect of India … Were we to be driven out of India this day …
Samuel Smiles’s biography of George and Robert Stephenson opens with a heartfelt appreciation of the social and economic progress brought by the railways. He describes how this peculiarly British invention had by the 1870s already reached most European countries and beyond, and of course he could not fail to mention the railways of India.
Posted February 20 2017
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Robert Clive helped to establish a lasting bond between India and Britain, laying the foundations of modern India.
… Robert Clive was a brilliant and courageous officer in the private army of the British East India Company … More than anyone else, he ensured that India’s princes and people became partners with Britain rather than Dutch or French possessions, so shaping the character of India’s democratic … In 1744, eighteen-year-old Robert Clive went out to India as a lowly clerk … But after enlisting in the militia of the British East India Company, which was vying with the French government for the control of trade with India … The culmination of Clive’s Indian career was the Battle of Plassey in 1757, which cemented Britain as India’s almost exclusive partner in business and in government … The relationships which Clive secured became the foundation of the British Raj, and of modern India … Clive’S recall to India in 1756 … But the respect he enjoyed in India … After retiring to England in 1767 he was surprised to find himself accused of corruption, despite facing criticism in India for trying to rein in Company malpractice …
Robert Clive was a brilliant and courageous officer in the private army of the British East India Company. More than anyone else, he ensured that India’s princes and people became partners with Britain rather than Dutch or French possessions, so shaping the character of India’s democratic, legal and economic institutions to this day.
Posted November 5 2015
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The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.
… Just twenty-three years after the Liverpool and Manchester Railway hosted the world’s first regular steam-hauled passenger service, British entrepreneurs began running the first trains in India … It was the opening day of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, India’s first passenger-carrying line … The railway was the brainchild of George Clark, Chief Engineer to the Bombay Government, and delivered with the help of the East India Company … A further section to Kalyan opened in 1854, and by 1950 India’s railways employed over nine million people …
Just twenty-three years after the Liverpool and Manchester Railway hosted the world’s first regular steam-hauled passenger service, British entrepreneurs began running the first trains in India. The ‘Illustrated London News’ described it as an event more important than all Britain’s battles on Indian soil.
Posted February 20 2017
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As Governor of Bengal, Robert Clive hoped to use his powers and his formidable reputation to make the East India Company mend its ways.
… As Governor of Bengal in 1757-60 and 1765-66, Robert Clive strove to reform the East India Company’s wasteful … to govern India by Indians … that the attempt to introduce the English laws throughout our possessions in India would be absurd and impracticable …
As Governor of Bengal in 1757-60 and 1765-66, Robert Clive strove to reform the East India Company’s wasteful, mercenary and supercilious bureaucracy. The Company responded in 1773 with a Parliamentary smear campaign so masterly that to this day, many regard Clive as a microcosm of all that was wrong with British colonialism, but it is hard to see that Clive in Sir John Malcolm’s account of him.
Posted March 28 2021
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In 1585, English merchant Ralph Fitch found himself at the heart of Mughal India, as a guest at the court of Emperor Akbar the Great.
… In 1600, Ralph Fitch was among the advisers engaged in the founding of the East India Company, thanks to his account of a daring tour of Syria, Iran and India from 1583 to 1591 that had gripped Queen Elizabeth I and all London … Hither is great resort of merchants from Persia and out of India …
In 1600, Ralph Fitch was among the advisers engaged in the founding of the East India Company, thanks to his account of a daring tour of Syria, Iran and India from 1583 to 1591 that had gripped Queen Elizabeth I and all London. In July 1585, Fitch had arrived in the Indian city of Agra, which with nearby Fatehpur-Sikri lay at the heart of the realm of Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605), third Mughal Emperor.
Posted July 16 2021
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Edmund Burke tore into the directors of the East India Company, accusing them of doing less for the country than India’s mediaeval conquerors.
… In 1783, Edmund Burke urged the House of Commons to strip the East India Company of its administration of India … but it is our protection that destroys India … Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever to India … Were we to be driven out of India this day …
In 1783, Edmund Burke urged the House of Commons to strip the East India Company of its administration of India, arguing that the Mughal Emperors and other foreign conquerors had done more for the people than the Company seemed likely to do. His blistering attack on the Company’s record repays reading, as it applies just as well to modern aid programmes, interventions and regime changes.
Posted February 6 2022