Wellesley : Marquess Richard Colley, (1760-1842), eldest son of 1st Earl of Mornington: educated (sic) at Trim, Harrow, Eton & Christ Church (Oxford): Earl of Mornington 1781: M.P. 1787-96: Knight of St Patrick 1783: Lord of the Treasury 1786: Member of Board of Control of E.I. Co. & Privy Councillor 1793: Governor, Madras 1797: 4th Gov.-Gen. (18May.1798–30.July.1805): reversed predecessor Sir John Shore’s policy of non-interference & adopted the aggressive policy of ‘subsidiary alliance’ by which native rulers were coerced to come under his ‘protection’, maintain a contingent of his own force at their expense in their state, be governed right down to their boot-straps & private lives by his Resident or Agent of the Gov.-Gen. [=overlord], never contact any non-British foreign power or employ any foreigner without Resident’s permission. The Nizam accepted this ‘subsidiary alliance’, ceded some districts & dismissed his French officers: Bājirao II the last Peshwa caved in too but not Tippoo, son of Hyder Ali (q.v.); so the armies of British, Nizam & Peshwa killed him & shared the spoils: on the excuse of maladministration Wellesley annexed Thanjavur, leaving the Raja powerless & a minor pensioner of his own revenues: annexed Karnataka & pensioned off its Nawab with a fifth of his own revenues: coerced a treaty out of Nawab of Oudh by which the British would civilise him & his subjects at his expense: sent Sir John Malcolm to Persia to extract commercial concessions & a treaty against Afghanistan: for these utterly selfless Christian achievements in just one year, Queen of England made him Marquess of Wellesley in Dec.: enthused, he dispatched an army to Egypt to fight the French there & annexe Egypt: refused to obey London’s order to restore French possessions in India & resigned but (naturally) was persuaded to continue by adding to his belt, the Sword of Commander-in-Chief of India: forced Bājirao II to sign a humiliating treaty at Bassein in 1802 enraging the other members of the Maratha Confederacy; so he destroyed the Sindhia, the Bhonsle & the Holkar separately at Assaye, Argaum, Delhi, & Laswāri, thus enslaving Central India, Mālwā, Gujarat, Oudh & Delhi: unfortunately, before he could complete his God-given mission by adding Assam, Sindh & Punjab & blessing all India with Pax Britannica (by among other bounties, the Law that every Indian regardless of caste, creed, or common sense, shall observe the Christian superstition of avoiding official work on Sundays), the residual Christianity in his bosses, the Directors of East India Co in London, pinched them & they recalled him in 1805, but pacified him by the lucrative posts of Ambassador Extraordinary to Spain 1809, of Foreign Secretary 1809-12, of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1821-8 & 1833-4, of Lord Chamberlain 1835, & on is retirement granted £20,300 p.a.; not to forget marble his statues in London & Calcutta. [Deloused & humanised Buckland; & Bhattacharya]
... defeated them and this ended their expansion to the west. In 1798, Lord Wellesley was appointed Governor-General. An imperialist, Wellesley combined the instruments of war and diplomacy to fulfil his ends. Determined to tame all opposition and to wipe out any desire for independence, Wellesley put in place the system of Subsidiary Alliances. The system was such that when an Indian ...
... The Thinking Corner Yeats and Shaw Yeats once wrote to Dorothy Wellesley: "Shaw has written a long, rambling, vegetarian, sexless letter, disturbed by my causing 'bad blood' between the nations." It is curious to find any act of the most efficient fighter of our day described thus. The very efficiency of Shaw's fighting seems to have misled Yeats. Measured ...
... voice from its deeper levels of word and rhythm. Nor is Yeats a glorious freak: he has a great compatriot in A. E. and a fine one in James Cousins, not to mention Seumas O'Sullivan and Dorothy Wellesley. Ireland whose native language was Gaelic has triumphantly "arrived" in English poetry. No Page 17 doubt, Yeats and his fellow-singers heard English at their mothers' knee ...
... India. Clive, with his victory at Plassey, had ended French pretensions to an Indian empire and firmly established the British as one of the arbiters of India's fate. A generation later, Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) and his galloping guns had crushed the power of the Peshwas and Britain no longer had any serious rivals to its Indian domination. Sometimes by design, at other times almost ...
... ones were more concerned with promoting French commercial interests than conquest. To that end they tried to undermine the British influence, in particular among the Indian rulers. Letters from Lord Wellesley (Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852) plainly speak about the panic in British circles over the close ties of French generals with Indian rulers. In the pursuit of commerce, the Dutch formed their ...
... the struggle for national independence. If the Mahrattas had been able to rise above the idea of provincial or racial separateness, they would have established a permanent empire and neither of the Wellesleys could have broken their power by diplomacy or in the field. The British, historians have told us, conquered India in a fit of absence of mind. In a fit of absence of mind also they destroyed the ...
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