Unlike his fellow officers, Robert Clive saw in the moment of the Company’s defeat in Calcutta an opportunity to not only reclaim the losses but also to unreservedly establish the rule of the East India Company in Bengal.
An elite private school has renamed Clive of India house over the military leader s links to colonialism and Empire.
Robert Clive was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th century and attended Merchant Taylor s School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year before being expelled for fighting.
A low-born Clive went on to become a clerk for the East India Company before rising up to a high position within the British military, reported The Telegraph.
The school s headmaster Simon Everson wrote a letter to its old boys reading: Robert Clive has always been a controversial figure.
Robert Clive (pictured) was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th century and attended Merchant Taylor s School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year before being expelled for fighting