dalreen ramos dalreen. ramos@ mid- day. com Robert Cliveu2019s name comes with labels attached to it u2014 a plunderer, trickster and u201c socialu201d psychopath. In an age of fake news where anything can seem believable, which of these versions do we stand by? Historian Dr Zarir Masani insists that we study Clive u2014 the first British governor of Bengal u2014 in context.

Thatu2019s the idea he will convey today in a lecture titled Robert Clive: The Man Who Would Be King, at the KR Cama Oriental Insitute.