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‘DACOITEE IN EXCELSIS’ or the Spoliation of Oude by the East India Company by SAMUEL LUCAS, first published in 1857, is a charge-sheet against Warren blastings, the Governor General of Bengal, who by his will full acts of commission plundered, the Begums of Oude and extended the East India Company’s area of influence to this province. The author has not only supplemented with added evidence, the petition presented by Shujaud-daula and the royal family of Oude to the Parliament at West-minster, but has also presented the history of Oude church from the legendary days of the Ramayana to the times of Lord Dalhousie.