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‘Upon the whole, then, I conclude that the treaty of Bassein was wise, just and a politic measure.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 2005
  • British Expansion in India

Arthur Wellesley's own verdict on the Treaty of Bassein (1802) — defending a measure contemporaries had already begun to question — asks whether strategic calculation can also be called "just."

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