The Decisive Battles of India: From 1746 to 1849 Inclusive (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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It is, then, at a time when we may at any moment be called upon to defend the great Dependency of Hindustan, that I offer to the public the second edition of a work which has endeavoured faithfully to describe the mode in which that Dependency was acquired. The thoughtful reader will. Not fail to discern an enormous difference between our method and the method of Russia. In the tenth chapter of another work, now about to appear. Ambushes and surprises, I have indicated Russia's principle. I have shown how she watches, intriguing with its principal inhabitants. On the border of a doomed country till she feels herself strong enough to step across it. No sooner does she achieve complete success than she intimidates the aboriginal inhabitants by wholesale slaughter. Thus did she act towards the Tartars of the Crimea; towards the Circassians of the Caucasus; towards the Nomads of the Kizil Kum and the Kara Ki'im thus, within the last five years, towards the Akhal Turkomans. Not in this way did the British behave towards the races of India. In all their onward progresses they had the assent and support of the populations who desired to maintain law and order. The decadence of the Mughul rule was proceeding rapidly when Clive first landed in Bengal. Then the buffalo was to the man who held the bludgeon. These pages show how, under English rule, the buffalo is the property of the man, woman.

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