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二读 | Emphasizing the military despotism of early Company Raj: "cash and men"; How consequent fiscal policies disrupted the commercial buoyancy of Indian society; resulting in the failure of the Company state. | Creation of "traditional society": a period of social change as well as continuity
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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
DoubanNew views of the "decline of the Mughals", expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements, and the role of the Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.