 The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...  The Imperial Gazetteer of India - Page 368by William Wilson Hunter - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1900 - 480 pages
...always be yours, as much as our trade,' the Court of Directors wrote to the Bombay Council in 1689. ' 'Tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents...make us a nation in India. Without that, we are but as a great number of Interlopers, united by His Majesty's Royal Charter, fit only to trade where no... | |
 | Aline Gorren - 1900 - 180 pages
...Indian empire. " The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care as much as our trade ; 't is that must maintain our force when twenty accidents...trade ; 'tis that must make us a nation in India." . . . . Revenue and trade. And it may be asked, why not ? Still, the man who talked and thought thus,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1903 - 952 pages
...better to aim at trade, not territory. But the directors said, in 1689, " revenue is our care as much as trade ; 'tis that must maintain our force when twenty...make us a nation in India; without that we are but as a great number of interlopers." Without a strong Company in England they could have done nothing.... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 496 pages
...At this time, too, the Company, ignorant of disaster in India, declared prophetically that : — " The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care as much as our trade ; 'tis that that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade ; 'tis that that must make... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 536 pages
...; 'tis that that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade ; 'tis that that must make us a nation in India, without that we are but a great 1690] WILLIAM III. PROCLAIMED 405 number of interlopers, united by His Majesty's royal Charter, fit... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1904 - 364 pages
...in India by acquiring territory, its resolution for the guidance of its servants in India read : " The increase of our revenue is the subject of our...trade ; 'tis that must make us a nation in India." The immediate aim of the Company was money.1 " The object of the Company was to pay good dividends."... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1905 - 234 pages
...territorial power. As far back as 1689 one of their despatches contained these significant words : — ' The increase of our revenue is the subject of our...trade ; 'tis that must make us a nation in India.' They were now drawing a goodly revenue not only from large tracts of fertile country in Lower Bengal,... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - 1907 - 580 pages
...to spare no pains for improving their revenue. " The increase of our revenue," they wrote in 1690, " is the subject of our care as much as our trade; 'tis...our trade; 'tis that must make us a nation in India . . . and upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen,... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - 1908 - 240 pages
...dates from the passing of the following resolution for the guidance of their servants in India : ' The increase of our revenue is the subject of our...trade : 'tis that must make us a nation in India.' This resolution was followed by the Company obtaining in 1687, King James's authority for their Governor... | |
 | Behramji Merwanji Malabari - 1910 - 530 pages
...agility. Next year the Directors passed the following resolution, probably drafted by Sir Josiah : " The increase of our revenue is the subject of our...trade ; 'tis that must maintain our force when twenty actions may interrupt our trade ; 'tis that must make us a nation in India ; without that we are but... | |
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