[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c20.91 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c20.91](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.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.) - [Previous: v4.c20.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c20.90) - [Next: v4.c20.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c20.92) - [Up: v4.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c20.91](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c20.91) · Pramāṇa