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OLIVE'S ALLIANCE WITH OUDH 201
ance, our conquest, and our possessions to Bengal, Bi-
har, and Orissa. To go further is in my 'opinion a
scheme so extravagantly ambitious and absurd, that no
governor and council in their senses can adopt it, unless
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the whole system of the Company's interest be first
entirely new re-modelled." He therefore decided to
maintain and strengthen Oudh as a friendly state inter-
posed between Bengal and Northern India. And the
barrier-treaty of August, 1765, framed upon this prin-
ciple by Lord Clive, constituted the basis of British
