Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850. Maya Jasanoff

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was then the highest-priced painter on the English market,” which may be true, but it certainly would have made the painting one of the most expensive on the London art market in a decade.

       CHAPTER TWO Crossings

       I. Beyond the Frontier

      But elsewhere in India, opportunity beckoned. Across the native courts, from Mysore in the south to the Maratha kingdoms of the west, and in the Mughal provinces of Hyderabad and Awadh, European officers and technicians were in high demand: to design fortifications, develop arsenals, and drill troops able to rival those of the west. Compared with East India Company service, the pay was excellent, the lifestyle easy and permissive, the possibilities for personal advancement tremendous. If there was no future with the British Company, then Polier would seek one somewhere else. In 1773, he crossed the western frontier of Company-controlled Bengal and entered the province of Awadh, to work for its nawab, Shuja ud-Daula. For


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