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Clive: Founder of British India (Military Profiles) Hardcover – Illustrated, January 1, 2013

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Robert Clive (1725–1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived in Madras as a clerk for the East India Company in 1744. Through timely promotion and a clear affinity for military leadership, he proceeded to consolidate the company’s commercial and territorial position in South India before doing the same in the northeast in Bengal. In 1757 company troops under his command defeated the nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. This victory set in motion the East India Company’s ascendancy over much of India, paving the way for the 1857 creation of the British Raj, which would last for another ninety years.

Clive is a fascinating and important historical figure: a lowly company employee who rose to great heights; an informally trained military commander who led company and local Indian troops to a series of stirring victories over local rivals who were supported by the French; a grasping politician who used his great wealth to secure a prominent social position; and, finally, a hounded society notable who, plagued by illness, allegedly took his own life.

No one in the early days of the British ventures in India was as well known or as controversial as Clive became. In our own day, when empire and globalism are witnessed and talked about with ease, Clive’s position as both a servant of the East India Company—which developed into the world’s largest transnational trading company at the time—and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure.
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    140 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    POTOMAC BOOKS
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1612341683
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1612341682
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“An accurate account of events in India in the central third of the eighteenth century is bound to read like a tale of adventure. Clive is a brief and well-balanced account of the way a great military and political leader struggled with the changes of the period and mastered them with results that shaped two centuries of British rule.”—Trevor Lloyd, emeritus professor of history, University of Toronto

“A lively, informed, and balanced account of a remarkable but controversial career. Clive was an unlikely military commander who, in just a few years, transformed the fortunes of the British in India and enriched his family in the process.”—Roland Quinault, senior research fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London

About the Author

C. BRAD FAUGHT is a professor and chair of the Department of History, Tyndale University College, Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. His books include Gordon: Victorian Hero (Potomac Books, 2008); The New A–Z of Empire: A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History (2011); and Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham (2012). He lives in Toronto.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 140 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612341683
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612341682
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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