Lord Clive: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lord Clive, credited to Thomas Babington Macaulay, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lord Clive by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Read in English by Nicholas Clifford Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India from 1834 to 1838, working on legal and educational changes in that country. In his view, the establishment of British control and influence in India was part of a great civilizing mission, helping to rid India of its backwardness, superstitions, and corruption by replacing them with an advanced English culture, scientific and literary. That view comes through very clearly both in this essay and that of his on Warren Hastings as well. Needless to say many Indians have and have had a rather different outlook. ( Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lord Clive
• Author credits: Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:25:38

Catalogue topics

• india britain empire

Track guide

1. 01 - Lord Clive — 30:10
2. 02 - Lord Clive — 31:39
3. 03 - Lord Clive — 32:19
4. 04 - Lord Clive — 34:38
5. 05 - Lord Clive — 31:43
6. 06 - Lord Clive — 29:02
7. 07 - Lord Clive — 16:06

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