The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

The women of the Gentiles [Hindus] are in the habit of bathing in the Ganges. Siraj was informed by his henchmen of those who were of some beauty. He would send his henchmen in small boats to carry them off while they were still in the water.

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