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Index
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A
Abdali, Ahmad Shah
Abdul Kodah Khan
Aché, Admiral Anne Antoine d’
Adams, Major Thomas
Adlercron, Colonel John
Admiral Vernon
Afghans
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of
Aliverdi Khan
Allahabad
Alum, Shah
Amyatt, Peter
Ancram, Lord
Angria, Kanoje
Angria, Tulaji
Arcot: Nawab defeated there; capture of; description; siege of; relief force for leaves Madras; attacks on; repercussions of
Arni, battle near
Asaf Jah
Asaph-ud-Daula
Atkinson, Richard
Aurora
Aurungzeb
Austen, Philadelphia
Auteuil, General Louis d’
B
Bahadur Ali Khan
Baillie, William
Ballabh, Raj
Barker, Robert
Barnett, Commodore
Baskar Pandit
Bath, Earl of
Batwell, Richard
Bayley family
Becher, Richard
Bedford, Duke of
Beg, Muhammad
Beg, Omar
Belchier, William
Benares
Bence-Jones, Mark
Benfield, Paul
Bengal: temperament of inhabitants; British relations with; Marathas and; settlements, defences of; famine see also under names of towns and rulers
Berkeley Square House
Bernagul
Billiers, William
Bishop’s Castle
Blaze
Bolingbroke, Lord
Bolts, William
Bombay
Boscawen, Admiral Edward
Bourdonnais, Admiral Bernard La
Brereton, Lieutenant
Bridgman, Charles
Bridgwater
Britain: characteristics at Clive’s birth; rivalry with France in India begins; characteristics in 1760; characteristics in 1771
British fleet: attacks French in 1744; flees to Bengal; in recapture of Calcutta
Brooke, Frances
Brown, Capability
Buchanan, Captain Andrew
Buckingham, Marquis of
Buckingham, Duke of
Budge Budge
Bulkley, John
Burgoyne, Major-General John
Burke, Edmund
Bussy, Marquis Charles de: in Deccan; power of; taken prisoner
Bute, Earl of
Buxar, Battle of
C
Caillaud, Major
Calcutta: foundation; Black Hole of; fall of; importance of; Maratha ditch; authorities’ refusal to hand over estates of dead Bengalis; black town; expedition to recapture; size of force sent to recover; battle at; corruption and mismanagement in see also following entry
Calcutta council: refusal to hand over estates of dead Bengalis; insensitivity and ignorance; some senior members; attitude towards Clive; and Plassey; sums of money received by members after Plassey; powers superseded by Clive
Calquier
canals
Caraccioli, Charles
Carnac, Major John
Carnatic
Carnatic, Nawab of (Unwar Ud-Din): demands Madras and defeated by French; accepts offer of Madras; sends help to British; killed
Cauvery river
Chambers, Sir William
Chance
Chand, Manik: intriguing before Plassey
Chanda Sahib: aspirant to throne of Carnatic; gains control of most of Carnatic; at Trichinopoly; and Arcot; prestige damaged by capture of Arcot; fate after Trichinopoly; murder
Chandernagore; French trading centre set up; British capture of
Charlotte, Queen
Chatham, Earl of see Pitt, William
Chaudhury
Chinsurah
Choultry Plain
Claremont
Clavering, General Sir John
Clayton, Captain
Clive (village)
Clive, (mother)
Clive, Edward (son): drinks father’s health at age; descendants; life after father’s death
Clive, George (cousin): on expedition to recapture Calcutta
Clive, Margaret (wife): arrives in Fort St George; background; character and appearance; early relationship with Clive; initial effects of Clive upon; leaves for Engla
nd; marriage to Clive; relationship with Clive; first child; second child; sets off for India again; second son dies; joins Clive in Madras; life in India; daughter dies; friends; relationship with John Carnac; death of new baby Bob; pregnancy prevents her going to India with Clive; annoyance at Clive’s criticism of Philadelphia Hancock; baby Elizabeth dies; correspondence with Clive; living at Westcombe; develops fixation with Strachey; in France; finds husband dead; on Clive after his death; rejected as possible murdress; life after Clive’s death
Clive, Richard (father): character; as lawyer; dotes on son’s success; promotes son’s interests; member of parliament; death
Clive, Robert: achieves revenue collection from Bengal, Bihar and Orissa; burial; childhood; appearance; achievements; and American colonies; fortune at death; taste in houses; birth; family background; lives with Bayley family; rebelliousness; schooldays; siblings; character after schooldays; relations with father; accepted by East India Company as writer; journey to Madras; falls overboard on voyage; first exposure to sexual temptation; indebtedness; depressions; tediousness of job as writer; unhappiness of; needs father’s financial help; wine drinking; early acquaintance in India; shuns company in India at first; becomes scholar; character early on in India; as dreamer; puts pistol to his head; at French attack on Fort St George; under French guard and escape; enlists as soldier; praised for actions during attack on Fort St David; relationship with Lawrence; at siege of Pondicherry; fights duel; called a coward and retaliates; and Fordyce; humiliated by British defeat; enjoys brothels and catches gonorrhoea; promoted lieutenant; and Rajah of Tajore; appointed quartermaster; appointed Steward of Fort St George; ill of fever and recuperates in Calcutta; considers himself a trader; makes friends with Orme; now civilian Commissary; asks to become captain in army; at retreat to Trichinopoly; ordered to Trichinopoly; and capture of Arcot; forces for his attack on Arcot; character before Arcot; training methods; forces pace to Arcot; and defence of Arcot; nearly killed at Arcot; age at Arcot; chases Raza Shah; joins Marathas; nature of abilities as commander; at battle near Arni; given nickname Sabit Jang; growth in military reputation; at Conjeveeram; returns to Madras; to defence of Madras; at Kaveripak; first double-dealing; bitterness after Kaveripak leads to cruelty; loathed by immediate seniors; nearly killed at Trichinopoly; Chandra Sahib’s murder; as guerrilla leader; leaves Trichinopoly to take up Stewardship of Fort St George; his love of ostentation; his wealth increases greatly; tasks as Steward and Commissary; fondness for whoring; deals with forts at Covelong and Chingleput; early relationship with Margaret; suffers fever and abdominal pain; as opium taker; sensitive side of; desire to enter British politics; leaves for England; marriage to Margaret; falls out with Saunders again; relationship with Margaret; reaches Britain; struggles to find political orientation; generosity; becomes MP; election adjudicated; financial difficulties; hidden agenda in going to India; sets off for India again; promoted lieutenant-colonel; and capture of Gheria; Orme as biographer; sails from Bombay to be deputy governor/commander of Fort St David; journey up the Hugli; given command of expedition to recapture Calcutta; his understanding of the expedition to recapture Calcutta; ambitions as sets off to recapture Calcutta; at taking of Budge Budge; reaches Fulta; Calcutta council’s attitude to; loathed by Calcutta council; in argument over taking of Fort William; state on mind on retaking of Fort William; attitude to Calcutta council; takes Hugli; at battle of Calcutta; authority established; at attack on Chandernagore; row with Watson; intriguing before Plassey; and the false treaty presented to Omichand; and the forgery of Watson’s signature; again enjoying luxury; authority now supreme; at battle of Plassey; and the decision to cross Kasimbazar river; summons council of war; makes his decision to attack; forces at Plassey; has earned respect of colleagues; mistake at beginning of battle; consequences of Plassey for; nature of rule of Bengal; temptations faced by after Plassey; meets Mir Jafar after Plassey; entry into Murshidabad; enriched after Plassey; examines Nawab’s treasury; financial haggling after the victory; treatment of Omichand; and murder of Siraj-ud-Daula; joins wife in Calcutta; need to consolidate after Plassey; status conferred on him by Mogul Emperor; relations with Miran; relations with Mir Jafar; and treaty monies owed by Mir Jafar; curbing Mir Jafar; as consummate administrator; Mir Jafar weakened by; travels in Budgerow; fury at Coote’s advancement; deals with Shahzada; lays waste to land of Pulwansing; corruption of; his payment of a jagir; greed of; acts against the Dutch; and East India Company directors; fury at directors of East India Company; incensed by new leadership of Calcutta; fooled by Nundcomar; made governor of Calcutta; remains in India to consolidate; considers Crown should rule India; regards directors of East India Company with contempt; desire to become governor-general of India; approaches brink of madness; political ambitions in Britain; leave-takings; East India Company’s vote of thanks to; reception in London; as self-made man; generosity with his great wealth; ill with gout or rheumatism; loyalty to friends and family; parliamentary following; deserts Pitt; corrupted by violence and greed; peerage; promised Knighthood of the Bath; horrified at French being returned their Indian territories; opposes government over India; reverts to being man of principle and defender of India; his jagir comes under question; finds Walcot Hall; war with Sulivan; his jagir frozen; supports government; political failures; ranks of aristocracy exclude; as first nouveau riche from India; becomes Knight of Bath; his jagir extended; lays down terms for return to Bengal; proposes return to India; reassesses Vansittart; children left by; third journey to India; cleaning up corruption of India; his task to achieve good government in India; realises mess he has to clear up; journeys in budgerow; determined now on consolidation; awarded the diwani; effects formal beginning of British Raj; meets Mogul Emperor; exults at achieving diwani; establishes paid civil service; lays foundation for Raj administration; settles mutiny in army; clemency; accusations about women denied; creates charitable fund from legacy left by Mir Jafir; falls ill again; leaves India for last time; received by king and queen; correspondence with Margaret; falls ill; overbearing manner; desire to bring India under government control; illnesses; in France; quarrels with Vansittart; abandons political goals; keeps an eye on Indian affairs; allied with radicals; agrees triumvirate to rule India; creates safari park; becomes collector of paintings; estate purchase and management; unconcerned about Sulivan; and Warren Hastings; attacks on; criticises Hastings’s changes; accusations of corruption against; attitude to attacks on him; parliamentary speech in his own defence; and forgery of Admiral Watson’s signature; and parliamentary committee on India; parliamentary enemies listed; his jagir; the Omichand deception; on the Newab’s treasury; and America; installed as Knight of the Bath; installed as lord lieutenant of Shropshire; second speech in parliament; some ideas on India adopted by government; parliamentary trial; affected by snobbishness; and Philip Francis; catches a bad cold at Oakly; illness prior to death; now dominant on board of East India Company; tour of Italy; cover-ups around death; manner of death; suicide possibility; explanations for death; legacy of; judgement on; as individual; as politician; as soldier; never lost a battle; humanity; pursuit of good government; as ruler; and colonialism for children of see under Clive, Margaret; for relations with East India Company see under East India Company
Clive, Robert (grandfather)
Clive, Sir Edward (cousin)
Clive, Sir George (ancestor)
Clive, William (brother)
Coke, Lady Mary
Colebrook, Sir George
Coleroon river
Condover
Conflans. ?
Conjeveeram
Coote, Eyre: on expedition to recapture Calcutta; character; retakes Fort William; at capture of Chandernagore; at Plassey; attempts to capture Law; made commander of Company’s forces in Bengal; appointed commander of British forces in Bengal; and Mir Kasim; defeats Hyder Ali
Cope, Captain John
Corah
Cotton, Sir Henry
Cumberland
/> Cumberland, Duke of
D
Dalton, John: at Trichinopoly
Dana Shah
Darwin, Erasmus
Das, Krishna
Daudpur
Deccan
Delhi, Afghan attack on
Delhi, Maratha attack on
Devonshire, Duke of
diwani
Dodalay
Dow, Alexander
Drake, Richard: character; council member; and Siraj-ud-Daula; unwise overconfidence; at siege of Fort William; deserts; asks Watts to mediate with Siraj-ud-Daula; established at Fulta; sets up council of war at Fulta; receives Calcutta expedition at Fulta; loathing of Clive; suborns Watson; interferes in defence of Calcutta; dispensed with
Ducarel, Patty
Dum Dum
Dupleixfatahabad
Dupleix, Joseph Francois: asks for French fleet; and fall of Fort St George; character; and French Empire in India; attacks Fort St David; at siege of Pondicherry; insights into Indian armies; insights into Indian disunity; attitude to Hyderabad nobles; installs French candidate on throne of Deccan; conspiring in the Deccan; attitude to Arcot’s capture; on Kaveripak; and Trichinopoly; mental state; death; recalled in disgrace; and Bengal; bribes Duke of Bedford
Dupleix, Madame Johanna
Du Saussay
E
East India Company: importance of; lends government £1 million; foundation; asks for fleet to attack French; grateful reception of Clive; Bengali trade and; consequences of Plassey for; congratulates Clive on Plassey; high death rate; regarded with contempt by Clive; agents’ trade privileges; shares fall; concern about value of stock; bickering within; borrows from government see also following entry
East India Company directors: Holwell and; alarm at finances in Bengal; Sulivan becomes chairman
Ellis, William
enclosures
F
Fletcher, Sir Robert
Floyer, Governor
Foote, Samuel
Forbes, James
Forde, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
Fordyce, Reverend Francis
Forrest, Sir George
Fort St David: situation; French attack on; French withdrawal from; obliviousness of danger of Depleix; Clive arrives as deputy governor/commander; falls to French
Fort St George: Clive’s arrival at; foundation; panic in; departure of French fleet; looted; besieged briefly by French see also Madras
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