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To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.
Meanwhile, the British clerk-turned-soldier Robert Clive won a long campaign against the French for Madras.
Clive’s example in Calcutta set the pattern for territorial control around the country.
(Clive Barnes, the New York Post ).
A high sense of integrity took the place of what Clive called “fighting, chicanery, intrigues, politics, and Lord knows what. ”