Doctors As Empire Builders.
The East India Company*, in their attempts to make headway in India, were indebted, in various stages of their progress, to practitioners in medicine. It was in consequence of a cure effected on the favourite daughter of one of the Mogul Emperors that they had first been allowed a footing in Bengal. Later still, in the year 1715. a medical man named Hamilton, as a reward for curing the reigning Emperor of an illness, obtained for the company’ a grant of three villages near Madras, a permission to purchase thirty-seven townships in Bengal, and the privilege of introducing and conveying their merchandise from Calcutta through Bengal without duty or search. The footing thus gained, and the accompanying patronage and encouragement, enabled the East India Company to make such progress as to cut out ail foreign rivals. So England, through the Company’, gradually obtained full sway over India.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20629, 1 June 1935, Page 25 (Supplement)
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151Doctors As Empire Builders. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20629, 1 June 1935, Page 25 (Supplement)
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