[03] Mr Hastings ... Like Mr Fraser he’s a new-married man the date 1756, usually given for Hastings’ first marriage, is impossible if, as is stated by his biographers, the bride was the widow of the Captain Campbell killed at the capture of Baj-baj.

[04] loll pultun lal paltan—i.e., red regiment.

[05] panjammers paijamas.

[06] Mr Watts is minded to accompany the army Malleson, misreading an ambiguous sentence of Broome’s, says that Mr Watts remained at Kalna, but his own memoirs state decisively that he was present at Plassey.

[07] Agey Ajai.

[08] Placis Plassey.

CHAPTER XXI FOOTNOTES.

[01] the army was to commence its advance at daybreak Clive’s sudden change of plan, which is left unexplained by most writers, is accounted for by Ives and Scrafton as in the text.

[02] hovitzes howitzers.

[03] Modin Madan.