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The man who ruled India is a masterly distillation of Philip Mason's two classics, The Founders and The Guardians which were written soon after British withdrawal from the sub continent, when the sight and sound and smells of an area the size of Euro

In late eighteenth century India, the Mughal Empire under Shah Alam was in the midst of its slow and painful decline. The country was swarming with European mercenaries, soldiers and adventurers who came to make their fortunes by participating in the