The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.91
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.91
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v4.c20.91
The chief cause of their immunity lay in the fact that it was the business of nobody in particular to act against them. . . . Their friends on shore gave them timely information. . . . Officials high in authority winked at their doings, from which they drew a profit. . . . The native officials, unable to distinguish the rogues from the honest traders, held the E.I. Co.'s servants responsible for their misdeeds. (Biddulph.)