Quotes About William Dalrymple

there could be little legitimacy for this general who had had his own Nawab murdered and who now sat in what one Company observer called 'a throne warm with the blood of his Lord

He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.

Calcutta,' wrote Clive a few years later, 'is one of the most wicked places in the Universe … Rapacious and Luxurious beyond conception.

total; Mughal losses were many times higher, perhaps as many as 5,000 dead. For a long time the day's outcome was uncertain. But for all this, it was still, ultimately, one of the most decisive battles in Indian history, even more so than the more famous Battle of Plassey seven years earlier.