New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) By the second decade of the 19th century, the British East India Company (EIC) had ceased to be a mere commercial concern. It was a staggering, debt-ridden empire, ruling over a vast population of seventy to eighty millions of souls. The tranquility of this immense possession, according to those who governed it, rested not solely on the sheer physical force of its armies, but on a highly volatile mix of “moral influence, and in a great degree even by prejudice”.In this fr…
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New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The British occupation of India was built upon a great lie: the assertion that foreign dominion served the “welfare and happiness of the inhabitants”. The East India Company (EIC), a vast trading corporation that had morphed into a territorial sovereign, continually boasted of establishing “courts of justice” and creating “new and valuable property” for the natives, claiming to have replaced a chaotic, precarious past.Yet, this veneer of benevolence barely concealed a sy…