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during a period in which the company was increasing its control of that territory. It appears that Abu Taleb, who had had to exile himself from Oudh after being too closely identified with
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to seek appropriate employment by the company. He served as an occasional external examiner in languages at the company's staff college in Fort
William, and established and acted as principal of a new staff college at Barasat from 1802; he is recorded as compiling a Hindustani dictionary, but that
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his utility for later company uses in Oudh. Certainly, it appears somewhat singular that an officer of the company would invite a local to accompany him to
England, but that, nevertheless, happened. Singular too was that Abu Taleb published a travel-book recounting his journey, in circa 1805,
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