INDEX 503 Civilization, Asiatic, England's influence on, 494 Clive seizes Arcot, the capital of the Karnatic, 119-120 Expedition of, to recover Fort William, 140, 141 Letter of, to Pitt, predicting Lally's downfall, 145 Recovers Calcutta, 166 Returns to England, 183, 184 On the political situation in Bengal, 183 Return of, to India, 185, 198-199 Assumes the title of Diwan, 187 Accepts the Diwani of Bengal for the English Company, 199 Quotations from, regarding the polit- ical situation, 199, 200-201, 203 Receives a grant of the Five Circars (Sirkars) from the Moghul emperor, 211-212 Leaves India finally, 216 Evil effects of the departure of, soon felt in India, 223, 226 Arraignment of, 228-229 Death of, 229 Companies, chartered, systems of, for commercial expansion, 17 Rivalry of old and new East India, 66-67 nion of old and new English East India, 67-68 French and English, financial trans- actions of, 95-96 French and English, condition of, 96, 99 Methods of the French "and English, compared, 112 French and English, exchange bitter recriminations from Madras and Pondicherri, 118-119 French and English, peace between, 123 Company, a new English East India, formed, 66 Colbert's East India, established in 1664, 86, 88 Colbert's West India, established in 1664, 86 Colbert's West India, charter of, re- voked in 1674, 89 Company, Danish East India, extin- guished in 1728, 90 Company, Dutch East India, privileges and power granted to, 12 Capital of, in 1618, 18-19 Strongly supported by the home government, 25-26 Terms of the charter of 1600 of the, Company, English East India, first charter of the, in 1600, 9-10 In the East, unsupported by the home government, 24-25 Made responsible for all depredations of independent traders, 25 Given a new charter by Charles II, 30-31 Power granted to the, by the terms of the new charter, 32 Assumption of independent jurisdic- tion by the, in 1687, 42 War of the, against Aurangzib, in 1687, 45, 57-58 Instructions to the, regarding rev- enue, 56-57 Position of the, in India, in the last years of the seventeenth century, 57-59 Sends home for help against the French, 118 The real ruler of Bengal in 1767, 216 Necessity for State interference with the, 220 Assets of, hi Bengal, in 1765, 221 Insolvency of, 224 Provincial regulations of, 453 Company, French East India, founded by Louis XIV, 33, 36-37 Terms of charter of, 87 Vicissitudes of, 91 Finances of, from 1735 to 1740, 92-93 Growth of the financial embarrass- ments of, 111-112 On the verge of insolvency in 1754, 134 Company, Ostend East India, chartered by the Emperor of Austria in 1722, and later suppressed, 90 Company, Universal East India, founded in 1602, in Holland, 12 Constantinople an important trade centre, 3-4 Taken by the Latins in 1204, 4 Decline of, 4 Cornwallis reaches India in 1786, 272 Governor-General and Commander- in-Chief in India, 281 Settlement by, of the land revenue of Bengal, 283 League of, against Tippu, 286-287, 294 Leaves India, 298, 302 Second governor-generalship of, 344 Pacific principles of, 344-345 Death of, 345 Coromandel coast, French and English at war on the, 104 Cuddalore, French outwitted by Law- rence at, 107 Surrendered to Tippu in 1782, 256, 257
