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In August 1765, Clive secured from the Mughal Emperor another Firman granting the Company the titles of Bengal, Bihar and the Deccan. Under this new arrangement, the Company received the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Emperor. This led to corruption and aggressive heavy handedness by Company agents. Furthermore, the Company was accused of
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one concrete objective:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
He was taken ashore on a stretcher and died in London three weeks later.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
At the start, the situation had been complicated by the fact that the so-called Cloak and Dagger boys, under the control of a mysterious Colonel Grand and the Foreign Office, were involved in this adventure. But it had now been decided that they should break away from the War Office and go off on their own. This left Colonel Holland with a very-muc
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