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Sir Charles Napier said, “We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be”. Comment.

  • UPSC 2000
  • British Expansion in India

Attributed directly to the conqueror of Sind himself, this confession is one of the frankest admissions of imperial wrongdoing in the entire record of British expansion in India.

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