ABSTRACT
It has been a commonplace of historians that in conquering India the English but adopted the methods of the French, applying them in more fortunate circumstances. There is much truth in this—so much that Bussy’s career in the Deccan offers numerous parallels with Clive’s career in Bengal. Alike in the advantage which these two men enjoyed, in the difficulties which they had to encounter, and in the policy which they adopted, we find a marked similarity which arose naturally enough out of situations at bottom identical, and characters with much in common in spite of superficial differences.
