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INDIA ~ BEFORE INDEPENDENCE

INDIA ~ BEFORE INDEPENDENCE
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. . . On June 23, 1757, marching through a drenching rainfall at the head of 900 Englishmen of the 39th Regiment on Foot and 2,000 Indian sepoys, an audacious general named Robert Clive routed the army of a troublesome nawab in the rice paddies outside a Bengali village called Plassey

The century that followed was one of the conquest. Although they were specifically instructed by London to avoid “schemes of conquest and territorial expansion,” a succession of ambitious governors general relentlessly embraced just the opposite policy. Proclaiming that “no greater blessing may be conferred on the native inhabitants of India than the extension of British authority, influence and power,” the fourth governor general, Richard Wellesley, extended Britain’s mantle over the states of Mysore, Travancore, Baroda, Hyderabad, and Gwalior, subdued the Hindu kingdom of the martial Marathas, and finally spread British rule over most of the Deccan, Bengal and the Gangentic valley. ` Page 10

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