Robert Clive, the ‘Black Jagir’, and British Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Lenman, Bruce P Lenman (St. Andrews University, corresponding author), Philip Lawson (University of Alberta) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 801-829 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x0001270x |
| OpenAlex | W2129578479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 9 |
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 One is that the first adequately documented biography, by Sir John Malcolm, published in 1836, has never really been superseded, because it was solidly based on family papers made available by Lord Powis.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
Apportionment · Art · Art history · Biography · Blame · Criticism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Praise · Australian History and Society · Classics · History · Law · Medicine · Scottish History and National Identity
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
Investment and Empire in the Later Eighteenth Century
History and Historiography of the English East India Company
A Theatre of Disputes’
The Imperial Constitution of the Law Officers of the Crown
Material Turns in British History
Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire
The ‘Little Parliament’
The Missing Link
Lord Clive and Speculation in East India Company Stock, 1766
The Fixation of (Moral) Belief
The correspondence of Edmund Burke
The East India Company and the Peace of Paris
The Loyal Brotherhood and the Cocoa Tree
Resources and Techniques the Second Maratha War
Grenville's Election Act, 1770
Diamonds and Coral
The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics
The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics
Clive in the English Political World, 1761-64
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2020 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |