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The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774 - Volumes
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18 volumes in The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774 | Page 2 of 5
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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 in 1767 as commander-in-chief and Governor of Bengal. Scope and content: The group consists, for the most part, of papers, [c.1750's]-1771, connected with the general routine military administration but also includes some papers, 1756, relating to Clive's own active service. Being few in number however, they provide only a fragmentary record of his military role with little for the early years of his service and his first governorship (1758-1760), but slightly more for his second administration (1765-1767). A few papers, dated 1764 and 1771, refer to events that occurred when Clive was not in India but are, nonetheless, pertinent to his service there. Arrangement: In six documents: army returns, companies and casualties; army returns, Fort William and Bengal generally; establishment lists; regulations and general orders; India military campaigns; and miscellaneous military papers. Related units: A further and more comprehensive coverage of Clive's military career is in the core official correspondence in CR and CC. Extent: 7 vols., 6 envelopes, 4 bundles, 1 file. 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, and miscellaneous correspondence and papers (council and committees), 1757-1759, 1766-1767. Arrangement: In six documents: consultations, indexes to the consultations, proceedings of the council, proceedings of the select committee, proceedings of the committee of inspection, and miscellaneous correspondence and papers. Extent: 10 vols., 1 envelope. Read more →
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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 established by Act of Parliament in 1774. Scope and content: Records, [c.1765]-1766, relating to the court's charter and its meetings. Arrangement: In two documents: charter and proceedings. Extent: 2 vols. 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 in southern Asia. From its London headquarters at East India house, the day-to-day management of its affairs was vested in a large body of shareholders (the Court of Proprietors) and a smaller body of directors (the Court of Directors). Scope and content: Contemporary copies of official company records comprising charters, [c.1753-c.1758], treatises, farmans, agreements, [c.1757-post 1765, Sept], and account books, 1752-1772. Language: English, Persian. Arrangement: In three documents: charters; treaties, farmans, agreements, etc., and account books. Extent: 6 vols. Read more →
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