Robert Orme
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title:
Robert Orme
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Robert Orme was a British historian of India. Son of a British East India Company physician and surgeon, he entered the service of the Company in Bengal in 1743. He was regarded as an authority on India. He was appointed as a Member of the Council at Fort St. George, Madras, between 1754 and 1758. In that capacity he was instrumental in the sending of a young Robert Clive as the head of a punitive expedition in 1757 to Calcutta, after the Black Hole incident of 1756. He returned to England in 17
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East India Company civil servant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Orme
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2023-09-21T06:45:26Z
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