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Dupleix’s Triumph, Clive’s Inheritance: Adyar and the Making of Empire
The French victory at the Battle of Adyar River in 1746 showed how disciplined infantry and modern firepower could overturn the old Indian military order, while offering the British a lesson they would master. Joseph-François, Marquis Dupleix The Adyar, winding through the southern reaches of present-day Chennai before emptying into the Bay of Bengal, was neither a great imperial frontier nor the setting for one of those enormous engagements in which the fate of kingdoms appe
Shoumojit Banerjee
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