ABSTRACT
Macaulay, in his essay on Lord Clive, asserts that every English schoolboy ‘knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa,’ but doubts ‘whether one in ten, even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds, can tell who won the battle of Buxar, who perpetrated the massacre of Patna, whether Sujah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore, or whether Holkar was a Hindū or a Musalmān.’ Macaulay's review was written nearly forty years ago.
