The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774 - Volumes
Volumes
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Military administration of Bengal papers, [c.1750s]-1771
Sub-series CB: Clive's military service with the Company dates from the French capture of Madras in September 1746 two years after his arrival in India. Following his first commission in 1747 as an ensign in the Company's own forces, he served successively as a lieutenant and captain before being commissioned in 1755 as a lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. It was in this latter capacity that he completed his career... Read more →
Papers of the Calcutta Council and its committees, 1757-1768
Sub-series CSA: The council's official title was the Council of Fort William, Calcutta, of which Clive, as Governor of Bengal, was the ex officio president. In 1766, during Clive's second governorship, it was composed of fourteen senior company servants. Scope and content: Consultations (i.e. minutes, resolutions and correspondence) of the council, 1765, indexes to the consultations, 1766, proceedings of the select committee, 1765, proceedings of a committee of inspection, 1766,... Read more →
Records of the Calcutta mayor's court, [c.1765]-1766
Sub-series: CSB Mayors' courts were established by royal charter to strengthen the administration of British justice in the Company's various settlements in India, the court at Calcutta having been established by the charter of 1726 (revised in 1753). It appointed a mayor and nine aldermen to act as judges in civil cases and was also empowered to grant probate and exercise testamentary jurisdiction. It was superseded by the Supreme Court... Read more →
East India Company records, 1752-1772
Sub-series CD: The Company was incorporated by letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 and was finally dissolved in 1874 although it had effectively ceased to function in 1858 when the administration of India was transferred from the Company to the British government. Regulated by successive royal charters and acts of parliament, the Company developed from a purely joint stock trading company to a major territorial and military power... Read more →
