...brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the Company. In 1784, it passed a resolution that " to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India is contrary to the wish, the honour, and policy of the British nation." Bat the sea of Indian affairs...

...May, 1782, and recognised and adopted by the legislature in subsequent Acts of Parliament, namely, ' that to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of...wish, the honour, and the policy, of this nation.' His speech produced complimentary expressions on the part of the government, but his motion was defeated...

...neutral, defensive, not interfering, pacific, according to the full spirit of that enactment declaring that ' to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation. The impossibility of adhering to this beautiful theory was soon manifested, and subsequent...

...policies were attempted. Its dividend had already been fixed by statute. Pitt's India Act warned it that 'to pursue Schemes of Conquest and Extension of Dominion in India' was 'repugnant to the Wish, the Honour, and Policy of this Nation', and prohibited aggressive policies.2...

...expansion, there was also a reluctance to extend territorial control. The India Act of 1784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in...are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'. 133 Three years later, Carmarthen complained that in the Lords Thurlow had...

...magistrate. In addition, the Company militia was "Europeanized."3 Although the India Act had announced that "to pursue schemes of conquest and extension...wish, the honour, and the policy of this nation," Cornwallis performed with equal vigor militarily.4 He resumed war in Mysore against Tipu Sultan with...

...India, the British House of Commons resolved that "to pursue schemes of conquest and extent of dominion, c y - \ 9 ď Y)? k 0 Y J C k Yet colonialism was well under way. For most of the texts in this anthology, the contexts of empire...

...Ocean' (VIL 71). Nevertheless, the India Act passed by the British Parliament in 1784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in...are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'.61 The European powers were more concerned with fighting each other, both in...

...most marked in the case of Britain, the leading imperial power. The India Act of 1 784 declared that 'schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in...are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation'. Even so, in the ten years prior to Britain's entry into the French Revolutionary...

...for the future of the British in India that 'to pursue schemes of conquest and 90 extent of dominion, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour and the policy of this nation'.31 In presenting the Committee's resolutions, Dundas had insisted that the Company's servants...