Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Conceptual and Methodological Approach
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction: The Early Years and the Evolving Grand Strategic Reality, 1600–1784
- Part I Dealing with the French Menace, 1744–61
- 1 The Indian Dimension in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744–48
- 2 Anglo-French Mercenaries in the ‘service’ of the Carnatic Princes, 1749–54
- 3 The Struggle for Supremacy in the Carnatic during the Seven Years War, 1756–61
- 4 Noises Off: The Seven Years War in Bengal – Unseating a Nawab, 1756–57
- Part II Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762–84
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Worlds of the East India Company
4 - Noises Off: The Seven Years War in Bengal – Unseating a Nawab, 1756–57
from Part I - Dealing with the French Menace, 1744–61
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Conceptual and Methodological Approach
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction: The Early Years and the Evolving Grand Strategic Reality, 1600–1784
- Part I Dealing with the French Menace, 1744–61
- 1 The Indian Dimension in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744–48
- 2 Anglo-French Mercenaries in the ‘service’ of the Carnatic Princes, 1749–54
- 3 The Struggle for Supremacy in the Carnatic during the Seven Years War, 1756–61
- 4 Noises Off: The Seven Years War in Bengal – Unseating a Nawab, 1756–57
- Part II Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762–84
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Worlds of the East India Company
Summary
The Nabob [Alivardi Khan] is coming down … with an intent to bully all the [European] settlements out of a large sum of money; Clive, ‘twould be a good deed to swinge the old dog. I don't speak at random when I say that the Company must think seriously of it, or twill not be worth their while to trade in Bengal.
Robert Orme (Calcutta councillor) to Robert Clive at Madras, 25 August 1752.I flatter myself that the Expedition will not end with the retaking of Calcutta only; and that the Company's Estate in these parts will be settled in a Better and more lasting condition than ever.
Clive (Madras) to the secret Committee of the Court of Directors, London, 11 October 1756, on his appointment to command the relief mission to Bengal.Old soldiers at home believe Our exploits in India have been much of the same Nature as those of Fernando Cortes.
Clive (Bengal) to his then friend, Henry Vansittart (Madras), 20 August 1759.While there was every expectation at Madras that renewed conflict with France in Europe in 1756 would terminate the provisional Anglo-French truce in the Carnatic, it was not so certain that fighting between them would occur in Bengal. Here the Nawab was deemed to be strong enough to deter the Europeans from it and, anyway, neither had the spare resources to open up a second front deliberately.
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- The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784A Grand Strategic Interpretation, pp. 107 - 144Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013