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All the great lords of the country, both Gentoos and Mahomedans, were uneasy, discontented, and disobedient, and some absolutely in arms, and refusing to recognize the prince we had set up.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke details the discontent among the local lords in response to foreign governance.
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