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30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p10-11 The lion and the Lily: The rise and fall of Awadhi by Ira Mukhoty Aleph books company, New Delhi 2024, 456 pp. Rs. 999 (HB).ISBN 978-81-19633-97-9 . ABSTRACT The choice of the lion and the Lily as metaphors to explain the French presence and te ultimate rampaging British lion that ravaged the rich stage of Awadhi, paralyzing its rulers in the grip of a subsidiary alliance extracting revenues disproportionate to its service, is apt. It sets out the achievements and ambitions of French adventures like Jean Baptistle Gentile, Rene Made, Benoit De Bygone, Antoine Pooler and Claude Martin who sought fortunes in Hindustan, landing their series in innumerable beltless that market 18th century transition politics, which as extensions and reverberation of the Anglo French struggle for supremacy in Europe was simultaneously local and global. –Reproduced Biblio: A Review of Books 260512