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I’m really enjoying learning about the EIC in India. The world’s first unaccountable corporate pseudo state with their own private army.
There were, to paraphrase a certain someone, a lot of bastards on both sides. But also much more on one side. Guess which one

“As it was in our interest to humour him gently, we always received him with a thousand courtesies, far more than he merited, and we sought his intervention in all important matters…by sending him presents from time to time. This helped maintain cordial relations between us.”
A country sucking up to a narcissistic psychopath for political favors? Thank goodness the world has moved on from this kind of thing