... selling silver and devices like clocks and firearms in return for cotton, spices, silk, indigo, jewels and opium. Before long the East India Company was one of the largest employers in London. In India, its major settlements developed into self-sufficient communities, with forts, warehouses, residents and ... highly principled eye, extra-curricular profits were quickly cut down, earned salaries somewhat increased. More than just instilling a new sense of discipline, Hastings brought a sense of civility. He was an educated man, schooled in Persian and Bengali and firmly convinced that the...

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