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British Officials In India -- Good And Bad
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From History of economy.Economy of salary

"Venice take for it self the control of the Black Sea in the 4th crusade.This bring to Venice the full control of land trade whit India."
"Our subject require detail study of flux of precious metals in Europe,because only like this we could explain the changes which bring the birth of the modern world.The bigest events in this subject are:discovery of America and conquest of India by english.
Succes of italian republics didt take long .Muslims expansion lead to braking of trade routes whit India.Fight for finding new roads to India has start it.In search for India ,Columb descover America,which bring in Europe huge quantites of gold.
The country who enjoy the most by this flux of gold was Spain.The import of gold was enormous-8 milion coins in 1599,10 milion in 1600,7 milion in 1604,14 milions in 1605,10 milions in 1610.
The gold that enter in circulation was 12 times more then all pre-existent quantity.Production from America was 80 milion anualy from 1600 to 1700,180 milions betwin 1750 and 1800, and 250 milions betwin 1800-1810.
But this gold enter in wrong hands.Spanish could use it propely and ,just like ancient Rome,who let his loose the gold in favour of the Orient,spanish let it escape to Holland and England.IN 17 century Spain job was very simple.She take the gold from America and distributed to others.To bad for Spain.
Spain produce little from it:the spiled whit blood gold,serve only for alimentation of Spain vanity and make spanish people even less suitable for trade and production.
But the fate which defeated ancient Rome make the same for Spain and it was in danger to do the same to nordic countries.The precious metal,which was bring whit the cost of so many shamefull savages against amerindians,Take the road to Asia,just like the roman gold before it.
From imemorial times,oriental custome was to gather gold,and from the moghul king dress in Golonda diamonds to the last poor peasent,each indian has his secret treasure,keeping it for the bad days.Year after year,from when Pizzaro kill the inca king Atahualpa and looting his gold,a torent of precious metal came from America to Europe and from Europe to India.Here ,the gold disapierd as if the earth him self swalow it,living no trace.
Soon Englang start to feel a shortage of gold.In fact the all continent.Determined by this gold shortage,apear for the first time Bullion,s school,which advice the stoping of gold exports.But whit all this prohibition of gold export(in France and England),the cash was less and less in Europe.In Wilhelm 3 ruling,the lack of cash was so big,that jull-makers from London lead a petition to parlament in 9 april 1690.In this petition was mention that in ports ,ready for export are 286162 silver onces and 89949 dollars in pieces of 8,The traders are not in doubt that not only the company of Oriental Indies,but also the jewish traders have bought huge quantites of metal for export each one pence and half above the legal price.
But whit all the protests and parlament laws,the gold become less and less.No matter how MANY TAXES ENGLAND AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES PUT ON GOLD ,IN ORDER TO KEEP IT IN EUROPE,THE BUYING POWER OF INDIA WAS INFINIT BIGGER,and from that reason ,whit all prohibition,waves of gold take the way of Asia whit fatal impetuozity.Europe remain whitout cash;her stock was swaloed by the Orient just like thoose of ancient Rome.
The solution was the conquering India and bringing the gold back in Europe.France has tried but Englang give the big shot.In Plassey battle in 1757,India is concuered,and what spanish do it in America,the english repeat now in Bengal.The gold was take from the indians whit cost of the most atroceos murders.
The secret treasures,of milion of people-say Brooks Adams-was take by english and transported to London,just like ancient romans transported in Italy,the richness of Greece and Minor Asia.Burke estimated the quantity looted at 40 milion pounds.
About Clive,is no limit for the growth of his richness,except his own moderation.The treasures of Bengal was open before him.Huge masses of coins,and here you could see the florins and ducats of which the venetians had buy the textiles and colonials of the Orient.Clive walking betwin masses of gold,diamonds and silver and was free to take anything he want to.
Adam describe in his book,The taking of Calcutta,how Clive defeated the nabab army,and he was ready to punish them,if the civilians wouldnt intervine.Folow long negociations,in which Clive show a more then oriental duplicity in it.In a single ship Clive send 0.8milion pounds from which keep it for him self 0.3milion pounds.But the sums taked by Clive are insignificant compared whit mass looting that folow his leaving.The english officers of Bengal was so rapacious and iresponsable,their only wish was to looted as fast as posible the indigens and fled quikly back in England,for expose there their richness.
The english guverment in Bengal-say Macaulay-was so bad that it was a danger for existence of society it self.The ancient roman proconsul,which looted a roman province for a year or two,in which to build marble palaces,to drink from chihlimbar cupes,to enjoy the song of exotic birds,to expose gladiators and herds of girafs;the vice-king of Spain,who let in his back the cursess of Mexic and Lima,for entering in Madrid in a long line of golden chariots and horses dress in silver-are now overpass by the english."
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