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 Cross of the Turkish Order of the Lion and Sun : she has written Our Viceregal Life in India, 1890 : My Canadian Journal, 1891.

DUNCAN, DAVID (1839–)

Born Nov. 5, 1839 : son of David Duncan : educated at Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Berlin Universities : Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy in Madras Presidency College, 1870–84 : Principal of Presidency College, 1884–92 : Registrar, University of Madras : Director of Public Instruction, Madras, 1892–9 : Vice-Chancellor of Madras University, 1899 : retired, 1899 : author (with others) of Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology : now engaged in writing Biography of Herbert Spencer.

DUNCAN, JONATHAN (1756–1811)

Governor : Indian Civilian : son of Alexander Duncan: born May 15, 1756 : arrived at Calcutta in the E.I. Co.'s service in 1772 : made Resident and Superintendent at Benares, 1788 : suppressed scandals in the administration and infanticide : was Governor of Bombay for the unprecedented time of 16 years from Dec. 27, 1795, to Aug. II, 1811, dying at Bombay : he recognized a very large number of small chiefs as sovereign princes, a policy which was not elsewhere adopted : his time was synchronous with the later war against Tippoo, the Mahratta wars, and Baird's expedition to Egypt, the pacification of Gujarat and Kattiawar, in all of which he played a great part. He was buried at Bombay, and a monument was erected in his honour, with the inscription "He was a good man and a just," and a scroll bearing the words "Infanticide abolished in Benares and Kattiawar."

DUNDAS, JAMES (1842–1879)

Son of 'George Dundas, Scotch judge : born Sep. 12, 1842 : educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Addiscombe : went to India in the Royal Engineers, March, 1862 : became a Captain : gained his V.C. in the Bhutan expedition of 1864–5 for personal bravery in storming, under very trying conditions, a block-house, defended by 200 desperate men : in the Afghan war of 1878–80, he and another officer were killed by an accident on the occasion of the blowing up of a fort near Kabul on Dec. 23, 1879 : he was an officer of high professional merit and promise.

DUPLEIX, MARQUIS JOSEPH FRANCIS (1697–1764)

Son of a French farmer-general, Director of the Company of the Indies : born Jan. 1697 : sent to sea : made several voyages to America and India : made First Councillor and MiHtary Commissioner of the Superior Council at Pondicherry in 1720 : accumulated a fortune : made Intendant, or Superintendent, of the factory at Chandernagore, 1730 : developed its coasting trade : Governor of Pondicherry, 1741, and Director-General of the French factories in India : declared himself Nawab of the Mogul Empire and Commander of 4,500 Horse : when war with England broke out, 1744, he sought help from Anwaruddin, the Nawab .of the Carnatic : La Bourdonnais came to his aid, from the Isle of France, and took Madras, Sep. 21, 1746 : great jealousy between him and Dupleix, who refused to surrender Madras and defeated the Nawab's force at St. Thome : Dupleix violated the treaty with the English, by retaining Madras, and by his treatment of them : his attack on Fort St. David failed, 1748 : the English attack under Boscawen by land and sea on Pondicherry was unsuccessful : Madras was restored to the English in 1749, after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. In the contests in Southern India, Dupleix, striving to found French ascendency there, took the side of Muzaffar Jang and Salabat Jang successively against Nasir Jang for the Subadarship of the Dekkan,and of Chanda Sahib against Anwaruddin and Muhammad Ali successively for the Nawabship of the Carnatic. By 1751, Dupleix's policy was, after a struggle, for a time successful. Muhammad Ali, at Trichinopoly, applied to the English for help. Stringer, Lawrence and Clive, going to his aid, defeated the French, Dupleix being badly served by his generals. He acquired the Northern Sircars from the Nizam and, after Chanda's death, claimed to be, and was nominated, Nawab of the Carnatic : was made a Marquis, 1752 : his forces met with further reverses from the English : the French Ministers and Company of the Indies objected to his schemes and fighting, as being obstructive