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The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain /

Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men--Warren Hastings--was put on trial by...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
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