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Clive became governor and placed his own nawab on the throne, in exchange for £500,000 for himself and the Company.
To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.
Up to half a million seals, most of them pups under a year old, were killed by commercial hunters in Canada last year (a key study by economist Clive Southey offered a lower figure--269,000--that has been contested).
Clive’s example in Calcutta set the pattern for territorial control around the country.
I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.