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Entry: The East India Company - Working To Rule. - A791110
Author: Tam - U198534

Another entry and, as usual, comments are welcome and appreciated.

Hi, Tam!

This is a very interesting topic, and what you have written is very good, but to me there seems to be a problem with the balance of the entry. You have quite a lot about the early years, but then gallop through the last 50 years in a few lines. I would be inclined to cut back the bits about the Spanish influence, and also the line about the North-West Passage (which is a bit of a digression, really). Then you could give more information about what the Company was like in its heyday. It would be worth mentioning its fleet of ships. I think your date for Warren Hastings is wrong - wasn't it in the 1780s that he was impeached for misconduct, after he had returned to Britain?

Anyway, I think this is an excellent start, but that you should write more about the extent of the company at its height.


Azara

Hi Azara. Thanx for the tip.

I actually agree about the balance; I think I felt the article was becoming too long so I basically summarised the last decades. I'll check up on the dates again.

Tam.

Did the company finance its own soldiery, or was this provided gratis by the British Empire?

Hey everyone

Just to let you know that this entry has been scouted - but before I accept it for the Edited Guide, can you let me know if the confusion over dates has been cleared up?

I'll check again on Monday

Hi there, just to concur with Ashley's posting. The entry has been picked by a Scout and it's Edited Guide-bound; it just needs Azara's comments incoporated. I await with eager anticipation... Nice wee entry, by the way.

Tam! Tam?! Are ye there?

Yeah, I'm still here. I just shifted flats and this is the first chance I've had to go online. Sorry For the wait.

As far as I know The dates are correct; I didn't mention Hasting's impeachment trial as I felt that wasn't germane to the article. Is that OK?

Sure thing!

Thanks for getting back - I hope the move went well.

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Hastins was appointed Governor-General in 1773, not in 1784 as you can see from this BBC link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sceptred_isle/page/123.shtml?question=123


Azara