2015.59083.Karl-Marx-Notes-On-Indian-History664-1858 by Unknown

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92 CONQUEST OF INDIA BY BRITISH EAST INDIA CO. 1782. Lord North’s Ministry had fallen; succeeded by that of Shelbourne; overthrowTi by coalition of Fox and North in April 1783. 1783. {Coalition ministry of North and Fox.) Fox’s “India Bill” brought forward. The Company handed in petition for another loan (the first granted by Parliament in 1772)-, this second profession of poverty stirred up great noise in the country. Inhisbill, Fox proposed the following: The Company’s charter to be suspended for four years] in the meantime the government of India to be carried on by seven commissioners, parliamentary nominees; all matters of trade to be managed by nine assistant commissioners, nominated by the Court of Proprietors] the zemindars to be recognized as hereditary landowners] in all matters of war and treaties, the Government of India to be subordinate to a Board of Control in England. (The latter [stipulation] was later embodied in Pitt’s hill. Lord Wellesley did not give a damn for it during his Indian administration.) Fox's bill passed the Lower House; George III ordered the Peers to throw out the bill, whereupon — January 1784 — George III dismissed Fox and Co.] Pitt became head of the new ministry; he was friendly to the Company and in many ways benefited their trade. August 13, 1784. Pitt's “India Bill”, a body of six members of the Privy Council appointed to act as a Board of Commissioners for the control of revenue matters and a Committee of Secrecy of three Directors to receive and issue the orders of this Board. The Court of Proprietors to have no power of government. All war matters and treaties to be conduct^ and concluded under the orders of the Board of Commissioners. Annexation policy to be repudiated. Every officer under the Government of India to deliver a schedule of his property on his return to England, with a notice of the manner in which it was acquired. The bill passed by great majority in 1784] henceforth the President of the Board of Commissioners was the real despotic Governor of India. Scamp Dundas (Melville) was first to hold this office. First case brought before the scamp Dundas: the debts of the. Nabob of Arcot (alias Mohammed Ali, of the Car

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