Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole
Item
Lord Clive's speech in the House of Commons, 30th March, 1772, on the motion made for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company, and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal. March 30, 1772
Title
Lord Clive's speech in the House of Commons, 30th March, 1772, on the motion made for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company, and of their servants in India, and for the due administration of justice in Bengal. March 30, 1772
Description
By the early 1770s, Britain's policies toward indigenous peoples had changed significantly. Robert Clive's acquisition of diwan from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam had transformed the British Company into territorial sovereigns of Bengal South Asian indigenous peoples faced new imperial policies that reduced their status within the empire in entangled ways. Robert Clive, who was synonymous with new forms of governance in India, used his speech to Parliament to frame "inferior" Bengalis as "servile" and "mean" and "superior" Bengalis as "effeminate" and "cruel." Catalog Record
Contributor
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library
Creator
Robert Clive
Relation
Pamphlet Collection (1640-1760)Horace Walpole collected hundreds of pamphlets on historical and political debates during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These cover an impressively wide variety of topics and contain several rare tracts.Extent: 120 volumesSummary: This is an indispensable collection for any scholar interested in the political culture of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries or curious about the collection of Walpole himself. Over the course of his life, Horace Walpole collected a broad range of printed pamphlets that form an extensive collection of 120 volumes now at the Lewis Walpole Library today. Robert Nugent's Considerations upon the Reduction of the Land-Tax, Robert, Lord Clive's speech to Parliament and the anonymous pamphlet, A Short View of the Dispute between the Merchants of London, Bristol, and Liverpool, and the Advocates of a New Joint-Stock Company: Concerning the Regulation of African Trade are three items highlighted in this exhibit, but they— and the volumes in which each is bound— form only a small sample of the tracts and pamphlets available for consultation. This collection includes political and historical tracts in prose and verse dating from 1640 to 1760, many of which are rare and annotated.
