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Hardcover Clive: Founder of British India Book

ISBN: 1612341683

ISBN13: 9781612341682

Clive: Founder of British India

(Part of the Military Profiles Series)

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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...

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