A History of Modern England volume 1

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A History of Modern England volume 1
Herbert W Herbert Woodfield Paul
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CHAPTER VIII THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND THE expansion of England, about which Sir John ma. Seeley wrote his brilliant and fascinating book, The ex- occurred for the most part in the eighteenth cen- England? tury, and in the early years of the nineteenth. But scarcely any one, except Clive and Hastings, did so much for the extension, and, it must be added, for the consolidation, of the British Empire in India as Lord Dalhousie. The Earl of Dalhousie Lord arrived in India at the begin
...ning of 1848. He did not go out with any grandiose designs of annexa- tion or conquest. Like his predecessor, Lord Hardinge, though there was a whole generation between them, he was a Peelite, and he was per- sonally devoted to Sir Robert. Peel took a great and continuous interest in the affairs of India, as his correspondence with Hardinge, printed in the Peel Papers. , is enough to show. But he considered the Indian Empire " overgrown, " and shrank from adding to it. He cordially approved of Hardinge's decision not to annex the whole Punjab in 1846 after the first Sikh War, though it should be observed that one-third of the Maharajah's dominions were then incorporated with British India, and that a Pro- tectorate was simultaneously established over the remainder.

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