Trusteeship

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I. Abolition

II. India: emergence of the Company-State [time line] [Pagden, 94-95]

age of partnership > company rule > crown rule > independence and partition

early 18th-c trade

E I Co Army/ sepoys

decentralization of the Mughal Empire

Seven Years' War

Robert Clive

the Carnatic (Arcot): Mahomed Ali Wallajah, Nawab of Arcot

Bengal: Siraj Udduala, Nawab of Bengal

Battle of Plassey
Treaty of Allahabad (1765): diwani

Robert Clive

advent of territorial empire

Warren Hastings

III. Trusteeship [Pagden, 96-98] and oversight

"nabobs"

1773 Parliamentary inquiry

Regulating Act (1774) / Government of India Act (1784)

Warren Hastings (governor general 1774-1785)

trusteeship

Edmund Burke: “all political power which is set over men, and
all privilege claimed in exclusion of them, being wholly artificial,
and a derogation from the natural equality of mankind at large,
ought to be in some way or other exercised for their benefit"

"humanitarian imperialism"