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Title: India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Forbes-Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslie, 1860- Subjects: India -- Description and travel Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: read far and wide; but it was clearthat they only bided a favorable opportunity toenforce their claim. The Great Mughal next made aneffort, in which he was assisted by the French, tooverthrow the ruler whom the English had set up inBengal. An army was raised under the Shahzada,and marched to Patnii, where Clive dispersed it with-out any difficulty. In truth, the Mughal was nolonger a foe worth reckoning with. His throne,shaken to the base by the invasion of Nadir Shah,had but recently been accelerated to its fall by a blowfrom the Afghans, who were shortly to become oncemore the dominant power in Hindustan. Meanwhilethe French had been very successful in their opera-tions in the south. Several of the English trading-posts had been captured by them, and, but for thetimely intervention of Clive, Madras would doubtlesshave fallen. Colonel Forde, in the Deccan, andColonel Coote, in the Peninsula, retrieved these losses,and the latter, by defeating Lally at Wandewash, and A Temple Elephant

Text Appearing After Image: INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE. 63 by the reduction of Pondicherri, utterly destroyedthe power of the French in the Karnatik. CountLally, who was the ablest and most patriotic of theFrench commanders in the East, expired underthe guillotine—a sacrifice to the clamor of a nationfrenzied by the loss of its Indian possessions. At this time the Afghans were again in possessionof the throne of the Mughals. They were soonopposed by the Manlthiis, who had long had an eyeon the prize. A series of engagements were fought,ending with the battle of Pauipat, than which per-haps there is no harder fought or more bloody contestin the history of the world. The Marathas weredefeated, Avith a loss, it is said, of two hundredthousand lives. But for this timely reverse, it isprobable that the Marathas would have made thecourse of English conquest even more difficult than itactually was. In 1760 Clive resigned the position of Governor ofBengal and returned to England. Immediately after-ward the ncwly-apj)oin

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