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 CONTENTS

I. Introductory 7-34

II. The System of Dupleix 35-49

III. The First Blow for Predominance 50-57

IV. The Flaw in the Machine 58-63

V. The English besiege Pondichery 64-69

VI. The Zenith of his Success 70-97

VII. The English are roused to Action 98-108

VIII. Robert Clive 109-123

IX. A Great Man wrestling with Fortune 124-132

X. Too Heavily Handicapped 133-151

XI. Tue Fall of Dupleix 152-165

XII. The Final Collapse 166-186

Index 187-188

NOTE

I have to acknowledge the obligations under which I am to the under-mentioned writers: (1) Orme’s History of India; (2) Cambridge's Account of the War in India, containing the Journal of Colonel Stringer Lawrence; (3) The Abbé Guyon's History of the East Indies, 1757; (4) The Memoirs of Dupleix, and of Labourdonnais, and a contemporary Memoir of Lally; (5) Laude's Le Siège de Pondichery en 1748, containing the Journal of Rangapoulé; and many modern works. I have also with me information which I gathered from Pondichery and Chandarnagar, relating to the events here recorded, during my service in India.