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By the end of 1830, Law’s sympathetic nature towards foreign policy and his relentless enthusiasm for India had damaged his reputation as a serious politician. In parliament, the majority of members did not share his commitment to India and certainly did not agree that England owed them anything. England treated India like a less civilised extension of itself: an exotic land that yielded profit and a good climate. Law, on the other hand, actually acknowledged the country as just that: a country, not a cash cow. Law showed an extraordinary admiration for India, so much so that he described his years there as the happiest of his life. He constantly strove to improve the society in which the people of India merely survived. In his work there, he demonstrated the ability to conduct official affairs with compassion and was motivated not merely by money but the desire to effect change for the better. “He had blown new life into the India Office, and had set in vigorous motion new tendencies in Indian government.” **(source?)**


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To the historian studying British policy in India in the early Nineteenth Century, the career of Edward Law is paramount. Law was considered a renegade politician simply because his views differed with those of the majority. It is also because of this that he was often publicly ridiculed and disregarded in parliament. Law’s career was lengthy, spanning thirty years. He served as President for the Board of Control four times (1828-1830, 1834-5, 1841, 1858) and as Governor General of India from 1841-1844. His most renowned achievement was the Annexation of Sind in 1843, when a force of 2,800 troops defeated more than 20,000 followers of the Amirs at the Battle of Miani (February 7th, 1843).


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This illustrious and eventful career makes him a reliable first hand commentator: his comments and narrations of this period being well known. As well as in hundreds of biographies, Law is featured in a number of other texts about the period. Among other published works, Law kept a personal diary throughout his life, particularly detailed during his time in India. There are also collections of correspondences between himself and the Duke of Wellington and Queen Victoria. Law was a central figure of British politics in the early 1800’s and there are abundant resources documenting his tenure in India available for the historian. Perhaps the uniqueness of his character is the reason why he is so well documented.


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