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CALCUTTA: PAST AND PRESENT
Burra sahib, chota sahib,
Banka Kapitan.
Dekho men jan!
Lia hai nishan."
Which may be freely translated:—
"See, oh! life of mine!
The Company's ensign!
The lady to Dum Dum hath gone,
Flieth the ensign.
Great men, little men,
Officers so fine.
See, oh! life of mine!
Goeth the ensign."
Like the East India Company itself, and its servants before whom it fluttered, alike in the gay processions of peace as in the stern ranks of war, the Company's nishan, their badge and symbol of power, has passed away from the land. And, day by day, as the years go by, the memory of it fades, and "the old order changeth, yielding place to new"
BADGE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
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