Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.45
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.45
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c3.45
As he studied the sometimes fascinating, sometimes cruel record, practically every day, it held him as if bewitched. He found that the British successfully initiated an intricate system of widespread control and extortion, taking away as tax most of what the land produced, as well as the products of manufactures. He found it horrifying that this was often done at the point of the bayonet.