Arnold Wright

Name: Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Chapter XVIII.—The English on the East Coast of India
Author: Arnold Wright

Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

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“Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Chapter XVIII.—The English on the East Coast of India”, published in 1917, is a work by Arnold Wright. It explores elements such as Bengal, Balasor and George Foxcroft.

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ From the great centres of population of Upper India went to and from the coast an unceasing stream of traffic, creating at a hundred points along the river's course important marts to which merchants from near and far resorted. In Bengal itself was the seat of many industries and the home of a numerous population whose exploitation offered openings of a promising kind to a great commercial organization of the character of the East India Company. To such a quarter it was inevitable that the English should sooner or later turn their serious attention. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ One day in a discussion over the dinner table in the factory, Nathaniel Foxcroft gave utterance to the proposition that no king had any right to his throne except that conferred by might and that a private man's interest came before that of the sovereign. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ Not until 1672, when both George Foxcroft and Winter embarked for England may the episode be said to have terminated.
The whole occurrence is so extraordinary as to seem almost to pass belief, but it must be remembered that in days when India was a six month's journey from England, and when the directing hand from home was still for the most part a nerveless display of incompetent authority, there were possibilities for the bold adventurer which cannot be fully realized in the present prosaic age. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ George to reorganize the factories in Madras and Bengal, early came to the conclusion that a bold and even aggressive policy must be adopted both on the Coromandel Coast and in Bengal if the Company was to hold its own. He advocated that the Dutch example should be followed of maintaining a powerful naval force to keep the native authorities in awe and ensure protection for trade. His conclusions were sound as events proved, but the Directors in London took alarm at his ambitious schemes and sent out in 1665 Mr. George Foxcroft to supersede him. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ Clearly nothing but force would break down the obstinate determination of the Winter faction to cling to their usurped powers. Accepting the inevitable, the Company prepared an expedition of sufficient strength to make resistance impossible. Five ships carrying out five companies of soldiers and a Royal Commission with full powers to reduce the rebel Government sailed for India at the end of 1667. A portion of the fleet anchored off Madras on May 21, 1668. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ His aid appears to have been invoked not in vain in reference to the Bengal affairs of the Company. Largely as a result it would seem of concessions which he obtained the Company in 1650 set on foot measures for the opening of a new factory further inland than Balasor, at Hooghly. In the following year it was actually established and thenceforward it became a centre of the Company's Bengal trade. But at the outset the natural difficulties of conmiunication with this place, a hundred miles up one of the most dangerous rivers in the world, prevented a full development of its capabilities. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ The Bengal establishment was greatly strengthened and additional factories were created at Balasor, Cassimbazar and Patna in subordination to Hooghly. The death of Shah Jehan in September, 1657, with the fratricidal war which followed leading up eventually to Aurungzebe's accession on July 22, 1658, had a very injurious effect on the Company's interests in India, and markedly in Bengal where the administrative confusion of the Interregnum was taken advantage of by native officials to prefer extortionate demands upon the factors. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ It is unfortunate that in the interests of truth this pretty romance must be set aside. Boughton, it is known, did not reach Agra until 1645, a year after the accident, and there is evidence, moreover, that the princess was attended by a famous physician who was brought express from Lahore to treat the case. ”

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