Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c38.s8.32

v3.c38.s8.32

We may conclude this episode by saying that no benefit resulted to the prince from this meaningless step; he soon alienated his host by his lofty and sneering tone, the English failed to secure an independent appanage for him through Sindhia, and he ended his days as a British pensioner at Benares. In fact, the prince’s flight was too late. Warren Hastings had now definitely decided to give up his plan of establishing British control over the Delhi Court, and realised the futility of such an attempt, though he had considered it as very promising and profitable two years earlier, when with such a pawn as Jawān Bakht in his hands he might have imitated Clive's feat of 1765.