Sublime

first commander of an EIC vessel to set foot on Indian soil.

that sort of reputation which precedes performance, – often the larger part of a man’s fame.

The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah.

Ommaney was disgusted to see that, as in Paris during the Revolution, large numbers had gathered to watch the entertainment provided by the executions. The Chowk, he noted, was “crowded with officers and Europeans.” “How transient seems this life,” he wrote in his diary that night, “when one sees a man so quickly part with it: a few moments and the

Sir Henry Garraway,

On 31 December 1600, the last day of the first year of the new century, the ‘Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies’, a group of 218 men, received their royal charter.27 This turned out to offer far wider powers than the petitioners had perhaps expected or even hoped for.

scurrilous

By the 1680s Bombay had briefly eclipsed Madras ‘as the seat of power and trade of the English in the East Indies’.80

only vestiges left in Mr L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.