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Page 186
... nabob of Oude was reduced , as Cheit Sing was , to be a dependant on the company ; and to be a greater dependant ... nabob's government ; we reduced his authority to nothing ; we introduced a perfect scene of anarchy and confusion into ...
... nabob of Oude was reduced , as Cheit Sing was , to be a dependant on the company ; and to be a greater dependant ... nabob's government ; we reduced his authority to nothing ; we introduced a perfect scene of anarchy and confusion into ...
Page 190
... nabob , " the more infamous son of an infamous Persian pedlar . " They wish that your lordships should consider him as a per- son vilely born , ignominiously educated , and practising a mean trade ; in order that , when it shall be ...
... nabob , " the more infamous son of an infamous Persian pedlar . " They wish that your lordships should consider him as a per- son vilely born , ignominiously educated , and practising a mean trade ; in order that , when it shall be ...
Page 196
... nabob Wallar Jau in the Carnatic , and the licentious violations of the treaty existing between the company and the nabob Nizam ul Dowlah , though checked by the remedial interposition of this government , stand as terrible precedents ...
... nabob Wallar Jau in the Carnatic , and the licentious violations of the treaty existing between the company and the nabob Nizam ul Dowlah , though checked by the remedial interposition of this government , stand as terrible precedents ...
Page 198
... nabob was likely to get into debt , he turns him into a vassal , and resolves to treat him as such . You will ob- serve that this is not the only instance in which , upon a failure of payment , the defaulter becomes directly a vassal ...
... nabob was likely to get into debt , he turns him into a vassal , and resolves to treat him as such . You will ob- serve that this is not the only instance in which , upon a failure of payment , the defaulter becomes directly a vassal ...
Page 199
... nabob . How it came into arrear , we shall consider hereafter . The nabob proposed to pay it by taxing the jaghires of his family , and taking some money from the begum . This was consented to by Mr. Bristow , at that time resident for ...
... nabob . How it came into arrear , we shall consider hereafter . The nabob proposed to pay it by taxing the jaghires of his family , and taking some money from the begum . This was consented to by Mr. Bristow , at that time resident for ...
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