a few years the british had defeated not only the french but also all their indian rivals and in a manner not unlike the americans after the fall of the berlin wall the changed balance of power quickly led to an attitude of undisguised imperial arrogance no longer was the west prepared to study and learn from the subcontinent instead macaulay came to speak for a whole generation of englishmen when he declared his view that a single shelf of a good european library was worth the whole native literature of india and arabiathe other factor was the ascendancy of evangelical christianity and the profound change in social sexual and racial attitudes that this brought about the wills written by dying east india company servants show that the practice of cohabiting with indian bibis quickly began to decline from turning up in oneinthree wills between 1780 and 1785 they are present in only oneinfour between 1805 and 1810 by 1830 it is oneinsix by the middle of the century they have all but disappeared in half a century a surprisingly multicultural world refracted back into its component parts while the children of mixed race were corralled into what became effectively a new indian caste the angloindians who were left to run the railways posts and mineslike today this process of pulling apart of failing to talk listen or trust each other took place against the background of an increasingly aggressive and selfrighteous west facing ever stiffer resistance to western interference for as anyone who has ever studied the story of the rise of the british in india will know well there is nothing new about the neocons the old game of regime change of installing puppet regimes propped up by the west for its own political and economic ends is one that the british had well mastered by the late 18th century sometimes the parallels are almost uncanny by the end of the nineties the hardliners in london who were calling for regime change found that they now had a president who was not prepared to wait to be attacked he was a new sort of conservative aggressive in foreign policy bitterly antifrench and intent on turning his country into the unrivalled global power it was best he believed simply to remove a hostile muslim regime that presumed to resist the west the first to be targetted was a muslim dictator who had usurped power in a military coup according to british sources this leader of state was a furious fanatic who had perpetually on his tongue the projects of jihad he was also deemed to be oppressive and unjust and a perfidious negociator it was in short time to take out tipu sultan of mysore and the president of the board of control henry dundas sent richard wellesley elder brother of the iron duke to india in 1798 with instructions to replace tipu with a westernbacked puppet first however wellesley had to justify to the british public a policy