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iv AN APPRECIATION Cunningham's book, that policy v/as undoubtedly unCunningham's book would be widely read, and That an officer would influence the general verdict. holding a high political office should write a book which, by the facts disclosed in it, reflected, however indirectly, t>n his Dalhousie's policy, was not to be endured. With one stroke of the pen, then, he removed Cunningham from his appointment at Bhopal. Cunningham, stunned by the blow, entirely unexpected, died of a broken heart!" just. . . . Truth, however, has triumphed ultimately as it has a way of doing. Lord Dalhousie could crush Cunningham, but he could not crush his work. Posterity hastened not only to remove from the brow of this conscientious and faithful historian the scars of the stigma which Dalhousie had tried l.o brand on it, but also to adorn it with the laurel crown which is the Cunningham's place in the victor's just reward. Valhalla of historians is now secure.