Excerpt from Dupleix Dupleix, in 1746. 11 me disait l'autre jour qu'il chercherait un moyen pour en de barrasser la Compagnie. The story of Dupleix's visit to Chandernagore, in 1742, is shown to be a pure myth. On the face of it nothing could have been more im probable than that an official of the Delhi Emperor should have done homage to him, when the relative positions of the Empire and of European traders, at that date, are taken into account, and the journey itself would have been a matter of months.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.