First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume III provides primary materials on the vivid controversy that engulfed the Company at one of the most crucial moments in this transition, leading to the British government's first intervention in 1772-3 to reconstruct the Company's management both at home and in India. The controversy is examined through two publications, William Bolts' Considerations on India Affairs (1772) and Harry Verelst's A View of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the English Government in Bengal (1772).
I .Introduction: ON The MOGUL EMPIRE Before The Invasion Of NADER SHAH, . III. ON The STATE Of HIND0STAN Licence The Total Subversion Of The EMPIRE, And The Prefect Condition Of The PRINC!E Whom We Now Call The GREAT M0GUL, : IV. ON The NATURE Of The OFFICE Called DEWANNEE, And The Motives For The EA~T India Company's Pretending To Hold The TERRITORIES Of BENGA L Under That Title, V. OF The NABOB, Other Wife Called The NAZIM, Or · SUBAHDAR Of BENGAL, . VI. REMARKS On The Foregoing CHAPTERS. VII. ON The MOGUL's FIRMA:UNS, The Passports Called DUSTUCKS, And The Early Possessions Of The ENGLISH In BZNGAL, VIII. ON THE Early TRADE OF EUROPEANS IN INDIA, AND THE INTERIOR PARTS OF HINDOST AN; Lind ON TKE- PRESENT DIFFERENCE J!E"I WEEN THI: TRADE OF THE English COMPANY AND TIIAT OF BRITISH INDIVIDUALS Lind OTHER NATIONS IN BENGAL, Established By The CHARTER Granted To The COMPANY; And Of The Government, Policy, And ADMINISTRATION Of JUSTICE In BENGAL, X. OF The Different COVENANTS · LICENCES Under Which BRITISH Subjects Report To The EAST INDIES For The Proof Of Residing THERE, . XI. ON.The Assumed RIGHT Of The EAST-INDIA COMPANY To Seize Their FELLOW Subjects In INDIA, And Fend Them 'By Force Prisoners To ENGLAND; On Their Abuses Of POWER In Doing, And On The Evil Effects Thereof; XII. OF The REVENUES Of BENGAL And Its DEPENDENCIES, And Of The METHODS OF COLLECTING THEM, - . XIII. ON The Late MONOPOLY Of SALT, BEETLE-NUT And TO~ BACCO, XIV. ON The GENERAL MODERN TRADE Of The ENGLISH In BENGAL; On The OPPRESSIONS And MONOPOLIES Which Have Been The CAUSES Of The DECLINE Of TRAO:E, The DECREASE Of The REVENUES, And The Prefect CONDITION Of AFFAIRS Itt BENGAL. XV. ON The NATURE And DEFECTS Of The CONSTITUTION .Of The ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, XVI. CONCLUSION
Biography
Patrick Truck
