1688-1783
Germans. After 1709 the S.P.CK. took it under its
wing,? possibly owing to Court influence, for Queen
Anne’s consort, Prince George of Denmark, had a
German chaplain. The S.P.C.K. subsidised the work,
and the East India Company was most liberal in
providing cost of passages and of freights, as when the
Society sent out a printing press and printer in 1711.
In 1726 a leading member of the Tranquebar staff, a
talented linguist, Schultze by name, decided to begin
mission work at Madras, and the S.P.C.K. took over
the new mission and its founder. It seems to be a fair
conclusion that in the eighteenth century down to
1783 in India, which had always been pre-eminently a
sphere of British trade as opposed toBitish settlement?
more work was done in the direction of evangelising
the natives than in the plantations. But it should
be botne in mind that Protestant mission work was
mainly carried on in Southern India, and that in the
eighteenth century, though very slowly up to about
1750, the East India Company developed out of an
association of traders into territorial magnates and
administrators of dependencies. It is reasonable to
suppose that this development may have been accompanied
 by sense of responsibility towards their dependants,
 until after 1750 the era of Clive brought with
demoralising rapidity a flood of conquest and dominion
and in Bengal an orgy of oppression and wickedness.
Then it was that the term ‘nabobs’ (a corruption
of Nawab) was coined to denote retired servants

Gs

Lt See History of the Society, ut sup., pp. 258, etc.
* But in 1671 a despatch from India spoke of Bombay as 2 colony.
See Robetts, # sup., Part 1, p. 76.