Michaud’s History of Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan

The Province of Bengal which Aurungazeb called the paradise of the world was not long in severing itself from the yoke of the court of Delhi Usurped by the Nawabs of Bengal invaded by the Mahrattas by turns it finally fell under the power of the English. [...] The rich country of Oudh the land of Allahabad the realm of Ajmere the terrtory of Delhi were by turns a prey to the bold warrior or to the crafty minister In the midst of so many disorders some provinces had thrown off the yoke of the Musalmans. [...] History could hardly follow all the events of which the banks of the Ganges bcame the theatre and the compass of the geographer goes astray over the routes of the ambitious fury which changed incessantly the boundaries of empires and realms. [...] The poor who were living on the charities of the king of Calicut were from this moment deprived of his generous help and the cry of famine made itself heard in the Palace of the chief of the Nayars. [...] The Subhedar of the Deccan joined the Mysore troops with an army of a hundred thousand men+ The power of the English in India was then at its highest They were the masters of Bengal the richest the most fertile and the most populated of the provinces of Hindustan.