Robert Clive, the ‘Black Jagir’, and British Politics

Two points may be safely made about biographies of Robert Clive. One is that the first adequately documented biography, by Sir John Malcolm, published in 1836, has never really been superseded, because it was solidly based on family papers made available by Lord Powis. The other is that if the modern general reader has any acquaintance with Malcolm’s work it is likely to derive from the sonorous prose of the oft-reprinted review which Lord Macaulay originally published in the Edinburgh Review in January 1840. This magisterial apportionment of praise and blame does not invite the criticism which H. W. C. Davis levelled at Macaulay’s equally celebrated essay on Warren Hastings; that it was even doubtful whether Macaulay had read with care the biography of Hastings by the Reverend G. R. Gleig which he purported to review

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• The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750

  Open Access•David Veevers•Origins of the British Empire in…•2020

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• Investment and Empire in the Later Eighteenth Century

  Open Access•H V Bowen•The Economic History Review•1989

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• History and Historiography of the English East India Company

  Open Access•Philip J Stern•History Compass•2009

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• A Theatre of Disputes’

  Spencer A Leonard•The Journal of Imperial &…•2014

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• The Imperial Constitution of the Law Officers of the Crown

  Edward Cavanagh•The Journal of Imperial &…•2018

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• Material Turns in British History

  Open Access•Margot C Finn•Transactions of the Royal…•2019

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• Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire

  Philip J Stern•Journal of Colonialism and…•2008

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• The ‘Little Parliament’

  Open Access•Huw V Bowen•The Historical Journal•1991

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• The Missing Link

  Open Access•Philip Lawson•The Historical Journal•1986

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• Lord Clive and Speculation in East India Company Stock, 1766

  Open Access•Huw V Bowen•The Historical Journal•1987

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• The Fixation of (Moral) Belief

  Open Access•Nicholas Hoover Wilson•European Journal of Sociology•2018

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• The correspondence of Edmund Burke

  Edmund Burke•The correspondence of Edmund Burke•1958

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• The East India Company and the Peace of Paris

  L S Sutherland•The English Historical Review•1947

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• The Loyal Brotherhood and the Cocoa Tree

  Open Access•Linda J Colley•The Historical Journal•1977

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• Resources and Techniques the Second Maratha War

  Open Access•John Pemble•The Historical Journal•1976

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• Grenville's Election Act, 1770

  Open Access•Philip Lawson•Historical Research•1980

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• Diamonds and Coral

  Alice Clare Carter, Gedalia Yogev•The Economic History Review•1979

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• The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics

  Holden Furber, Lucy S Sutherland•The Economic History Review•1953

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• The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics

  L S Sutherland•The Economic History Review•1947

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• Clive in the English Political World, 1761-64

  Open Access•C H Philips•Bulletin of the School of…•1948

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