भारत में अंग्रेजी राज (पण्डित सुन्दरलाल - ब्रिटिश औपनिवेशिक लूट व षड्यन्त्रों का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)

२५४ भारत में अंगरेज़ी राज
अन्दाज़ा एक करोड़ बीस लाख किया गया। जब तक यह रक़म पूरी न हुई
तब तक उन अभागे नौकरों और बाँदियों को रिहा न किया गया। उस
भयंकर काण्ड का यह सब केवल एक ढाँचा है। जिन जिन बातों से इस चित्र
(ढाँचे) में सच्चे रंग भरे जा सकते हैं उन सब पर आज विस्मृति (काल)
ने परदा डाल दिया है, जो अब किसी तरह हटाया नहीं जा सकता।” ꕤ

• " Asafuddoula pleaded poverty, and named, with some truth.. that
  amongst its causes was the annual contribution he was obliged to pay for
  the maintenance of the subsidiary force. Dreading a visit from the Viceroy,
  he went to meet him; and at the fortress of Chunar the negotiations took
  place which resulted in the memorable device for replenishing the exchequer
  of Calcutta without exhausting that of Lucknow. 'It was,' says Lord
  Macaulay, 'simply this, that the Governor-General and the Nawab-Vizier
  should join to rob a third party, and the third party whom they determined to
  rob was the parent of one of the robbers.' The mother and the widow of the
  late Vizier were supposed to have derived, under his will, vast treasures.
  They dwelt with a numerous retinue at the favourite palace of Fyzabad, which
  he had bequeathed to them. Asafuddoula shrank in shame from the villainy
  suggested by his Right Honourable Accomplice. . . The confederates, having
  ratified the bargain, parted, and each went his way to prepare the formalities
  of fraud. A conspiracy to aid Chait Singh in his resistance to intolerable
  exaction was to be imputed to the withered women who dwelt at Fyzabad.
  If such a breach of friendship could be proved, it would justify any penalty
  or forfeiture; therefore it must be proved and proved in a regular respectable
  way. When it was known what was wanted, false witnesses rose up. . . .
  against the undefended Princesses of Oudh, . . . no advocate . . . .
  Still there was a difficulty: a silken cord of conventional decency had to
  be snapped before the palace gates of the Begums could be forced open by
  English troops. The dying Vizier had placed these members of his family
  under the special protection of the British Government, and for reasons
  apparently good at the time, but good no longer, that Government had
  accepted the trust . . . . Not for the first time Sir Elijah Impey proved