Robert Clive

Standard Name: Clive, Robert

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Mariana Starke	Her father, Richard Starke , a reader with the East India Company , had been deputy director of Fort St George at Madras, then of Fort St David at Cuddalore, where he was...
Publishing	Phebe Gibbes	This work (which appeared just before the historical Robert Clive was re-appointed Governor of Bengal) brought her five guineas. It was reprinted in facsimile by Garland Publishing in 1975. Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii. xi, xiv n16
Textual Features	Mariana Starke	The play is set on the Coromandel Coast in India. It draws on the Indian colonial experience of MS 's father and her class-rooted conviction that the evils of colonialism arise from the inferior...

Robert Clive 's forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, consolidating UK power on the subcontinent.

Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.

136

Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

45-51

Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.

Dalrymple, William. “The original corporate raiders”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2015, pp. 26-9.

In a temporary reversal of Robert Clive 's consolidation of British power in India, French forces recaptured Fort St David.

Kumar, Janardan. Company India: A Comprehensive History of India (1757-1858). Janaki Prakashan, 1980.

Spear, Percival. The Oxford History of Modern India, 1750-1975. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1978.

Clive achieved complete control over Bengal, by defeating Mir Kasim and his north Indian allies at Buxar.

Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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