Dr Zareer Masani paints a human portrait of
Robert Clive, the controversial governor-general of Bengal
Firdaus Gandavia
Was British East India Company (EIC) representative Robert Clive "an obscure urchin, picked up, fostered and very unmeritedly raised to the highest pinnacle of affluence and pageantry by that deluded Company” or was he the "Flower of the empire, Defender of the country, the brave, the firm in War,” the man who won Britain an empire?
These were the questions raised by Dr Zareer Masani on the controversial career of Clive at a lecture "Robert Clive: The Man Who Would Be King” organized by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Bombay and the Museum Society of Bombay at the Max Mueller......