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Historical Backgroundh inspired four London merchants to travel to India in 1583 out of ‘a(chǎn) desire for direct communication with the East’.. They were the first of the stream who would travel to the subcontinent in search of trade, adventure and glory. Progress was rapid and, by the end of 1600, a group of ‘merchant adve

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Soldiersd 1840 saw the East India Company metamorphose from a powerful trading organization into the sovereign of an extensive empire. As trade grew, so did political involvement, bringing increasing numbers of soldiers and administrators to service the needs of both trade and empire/colony. The soldiers ca

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Satied that the Hindu faith was barbaric and that India was in desperate need of firm, humane and civilized intervention in the form of British conquest and administration. Initial (often hearsay) accounts gave way to eyewitness accounts that repeatedly shocked the British reading public. All commentato

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