KHAMTI TO INDIA 



followed the lines of its first instructor. Over India the mighty 

 shade of Dupleix ever watches. Though the patriot died in his 

 own country, poor, unknown, and deserted, his memory lives. 

 No one knew better how to render justice to the generous and 

 wide-reaching schemes of Dupleix than his greatest antagonist, 

 Clive. It is with the same perception that Colonel Malleson 

 has written {His/, oj the French in India) : — " If, in the 

 present day, there exist among her citizens regrets at the loss 

 of an empire so vast, so powerful, so important, ... it will 

 be impossible for France herself ... to suppress a glow of 

 pride at the recollection that it was a child of her soil who dared 

 first to aspire to that great dominion, and that by means of the 

 impulse which he gave, though followed out by his rivals, 

 the inhabitants of Hindostan have become permanently united 

 to their long-parted kinsmen — the members of the great family 

 of Europe." 



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