William Fraser describes the blind Shah Alam
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- The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company whole source · open book
Three years later, on 1 April 1806, Ochterlony’s deputy, the newly arrived William Fraser, one of the first graduates of Lord Wellesley’s new Fort William College, wrote home to his father in Inverness about his impressions of the old Emperor and his court
chapter: 9 The Corpse of India