File:Lord Clive encountering the ghost of Omichand, the Sikh who was the principal merchant to the English in Calcutta, ca.1773.jpg
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[edit]| The ghost of Omichand | |
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The ghost of Omichand |
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English: The ghost of Omichand, 1773.
This rare satirical print from the Westminster Magazine shows a startled Lord Clive (held by the arms) coming face-to-face with an apparition of Omichand, the Sikh who was the principal merchant to the English in Calcutta. Clive had tricked him out of his share of an immense fortune in the run up to the Battle of Plassey in 1757. It illustrates a dialogue in verse (a parody of Hamlet) between 'Nabob' (Clive) and Omichund. Omichund, wearing a feathered turban, appears from clouds addressing Clive with a minatory gesture. Clive, who is supported on each side by a military officer, starts back in horror. Omichund stands under a high palm-tree, from whose branches a man, stripped to the waist, is hanging by the wrists. A note explains that he is "the man under Breeches punishment". The scene is a walled enclosure or compound, on the right. behind Clive part of a high tent is visible. Beneath the title is engraved the beginning of the dialogue, spoken by the ghost of Omichund: "What Woes, he cried, hath lust of Gold O'er my poor Country widely roll'd, Plunderers proceed!" January 1773 Engraving |
| Depicted people | Representation of: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey |
| Date | circa 1773 |
| Medium | engraving |
| Source/Photographer | Sicques, Tigers or Thieves: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1810) (2004) |
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