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
- Part II Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762–84
- 5 Bengal, 1757–67: Crossing the Threshold and Becoming a ‘Country’ Power
- 6 Thwarted Imperialism: Madras, 1761–78
- 7 Bengal, 1767–84: The Borders of Power and the Power of Borders
- 8 Bombay Enters the Imperial Game, 1774–82
- 9 Madras versus Haidar Ali – Round 2, 1778–84
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Worlds of the East India Company
6 - Thwarted Imperialism: Madras, 1761–78
from Part II - Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762–84
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
- Part II Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762–84
- 5 Bengal, 1757–67: Crossing the Threshold and Becoming a ‘Country’ Power
- 6 Thwarted Imperialism: Madras, 1761–78
- 7 Bengal, 1767–84: The Borders of Power and the Power of Borders
- 8 Bombay Enters the Imperial Game, 1774–82
- 9 Madras versus Haidar Ali – Round 2, 1778–84
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Worlds of the East India Company
Summary
I am by no means for keeping up armies, or the sword unsheathed; it is peace alone that can restore the Company's Treasury and trade.
Robert Palk, Madras councillor (later Governor), to Laurence Sulivan, Chairman of the Company, October 1761 (seven months after the end of the war in the Carnatic).I invest only in the Nabob, at 25%.
John Call, councillor and chief engineer, Madras, to Colonel Richard Smith, Madras army, 18 February 1764.when we see the Opulent Fortunes, suddenly acquired by Our Servants … it gives but too much weight to the Public Opinion that this Rage for Negotiation, Treaties and Alliances has private Advantage more for its object than public good
Directors to Madras, 12 May 1768.In November 1767 The Fort St George Council explained to Fort William that it hoped ‘to have the Carnatick, Mysore Country, and Deckan so much under our influence, that no Disputes or Jealousies may arise between the several Governing Powers … by which means alone the Morrattas [sic] can be kept in Bounds.’
Madras has ‘concluded an infamous war by a Scandalous peace’.
Colonel Sir John Cumming to Colonel John Mackenzie, Bengal army, 9 October 1769 on the first war between Madras and Haidar Ali of Mysore, 1767–9.It is ‘a matter of astonishment … how the Alliance between the Nabob [Mohamed Ali] and the Company hath subsisted for so many years without one Condition on either Side, and every disadvantage on that of the Company’.
Warren Hastings to Laurence Sulivan, 1 February 1770.- Type
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- The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784A Grand Strategic Interpretation, pp. 186 - 220Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013