HIS 2326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sepoy
17 Apr 2020
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Allow london to have more control over eic. Concerned about political activities of the company in india. Warren hastings - new gg under new legislation. In charge of company"s factories in india - control of three presidencies of madras, bombay, calcutta. From calcutta hastings was in charge of major company actions, making calcutta most important. Trade from defence position - need military power to protect assets. Afraid of indian princes with power wants - mainly marathas - allied w/ french. Mysore - attempt to limit british power and control of coastline. 1770s - hastings returns to britain, people complain about his shit in india. Edmund burke - worried about nature of empire and government, worked to get hastings impeached, but failed, but was still financially and personally destroyed. Long time to communicate between india and london. War is sapping the wealth of the company, worries london/investors. Tipu sultan attacks british interests - attacks states protected by eic.
