Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s8.6

v4.c51.s8.6

Perron, in contrast with De Boigne, was a vulgar upstart, possessed no doubt of great military talent, tenacious industry and cunning, but without any noble trait or cultivated manners, or even tact in dealing with others. His one aim in India was to build up a fortune which would enable him to live the life of a Nabab on return home, and he monopolised power solely as a means to that end. A Persian memoir written by a clerk in Delhi about 1830, gives an almost incredible picture of his licentiousness. (Mafātih-ur-riyāsat, by Sy. Md. Riza, Br. Mus. ms. Or. 1752, vi.) He died with the infamy of being regarded as a traitor to his Indian master and to his French homeland. (H. Compton, 221-335. Martineau, Le Général Perron, Paris, 1931.)