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How far is it correct to say that if Clive was the founder of the British Empire in India, Warren Hastings was its administrative organiser?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

The formula neatly divides labour between conquest and consolidation, but the historical record shows each man's role bleeding into the other's.

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  • Clive as Founder: Conquest and the Acquisition of Sovereignty
  • The Wreckage Hastings Inherited
  • Hastings as Administrative Organiser: Revenue
  • Hastings as Administrative Organiser: Judicial System
  • Hastings as Administrative Organiser: Civil Service and Cultural Policy
  • Complicating the Neat Division
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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