Clive: Founder of British India (Military Profiles)

No one in the early days of the British ventures in India was as well known or as controversial as Clive became. In our own day when (informal) empire and globalism are talked about and witnessed with ease, Clive's position as both a servant of the East India Company-which developed into the world's largest transnational trading company at the time-and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure.