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Rh Lord Cornwallis had only the experience and the legacies of failure to guide him. Pressed for ways and means, and anxious for reform in more departments than one, he committed himself to a policy which, in regard to the three interested parties — the Zamíndár, the Ryot, and the Ruling Power — assured the welfare of the first, somewhat postponed the claims of the second, and sacrificed the increment of the third.