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‘We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful and human piece of rascality it will be.’ Comment

  • UPSC 1990
  • British Expansion in India

The line, attributed to Sir Charles Napier on the eve of conquest, is a rare instance of a British commander candidly admitting the injustice of an annexation he was about to carry out anyway.

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