M&D-related: East India Company

[Richard Romeo]

The Anarchy is worth reading. 
Hastings by the way if I remember correctly was quite an effective administrator in India and was falsely charged And convicted but eventually exonerated years later.

rich

> On Jun 1, 2020, at 7:40 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> From another new book:
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> " ... In 1772, at the end of the famine, Warren Hastings reported to the court of directors that close to one third of the population of greater Bengal had disappeared over the course of two or three years./ Hunter describes the famine of 1769-1770 as the most significant event in the Gangetic delta, one that shaped the course of the history of Bengal over the next forty years. Edmund Burke, in one of his lengthy speeches during the trial of Warren Hastings, described the Bengal famine as the singular episode that 'dishonored and disgraced' the government of the East India Company in Bengal in the eyes of both England and Europe at large (...)/ Richard Becher, the English resident at Murshidabad, observed at the onset of the famine in 1769 that the East India Company's accession to the management of land revenue had significantly worsened the living conditions of the common people. It was, according to Becher, the very nature of the company's investments, its export of currency, and most of all, its connivance at the pitiless exactions of native functionaries that had intensified the crisis ... "
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> Sudipta Sen: Ganges --- The Many Pasts of an Indian River. New Haven & London 2019: Yale University Press Academic, pp. 325-326.
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>> Am 01.06.20 um 12:20 schrieb Thomas Eckhardt:
>> https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/british-pillage-of-india/
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>> I didn't know that Clive of India committed suicide:
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>> 'He had, Samuel Johnson wrote, “acquired his fortune by such crimes that his consciousness of them impelled him to cut his own throat.”'
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