Difference between revisions of "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire"
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| − | {{DES | des = | + | {{DES | des = It was not the British government that began seizing great chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by a violent, utterly ruthless and intermittently mentally unstable corporate predator -- Clive. India's transition to colonialism took place under a for-profit corporation, which existed entirely for the purpose of enriching its investors. | show=}} |
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