White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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Several of the highly-placed officials had known her father, and those with Indian concubines made no difficulty; nor did the bachelors; but the European wives were harder to persuade. Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy has never failed the English middle class in any latitude, and they flung them in plenty with delighted, shocked aban
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