শুধু গুজরাট নয় সারা দেশেই পলাশীর পর মীর কাশিম বর্ণিত প্রতিযোগীদের হঠিয়ে অত্যন্ত কম দামে পণ্য কাঁচামাল কেনার নামে লুঠ চালিয়ে এসেছে কোম্পানি, কোম্পানির ছাতার তলায় ব্যক্তিগত ব্যবসা করা আমলা এবং ব্যক্তিগত বণিকেরা।
Company's political and economic aims were in conflict; in part because the Indian economy, though subordinate, proved resilient to invasion by European control or European styles of management. The Company was able neither consistently to advance the interests of private trade nor to inject growth into the economy itself.
...But the Company's attitude to the role of state power in the economy remained ambivalent at best. Its agents in Gujarat and Central India continued to secure supplies of cotton and other goods by driving other purchasers out of the market through the payment of uneconomic prices.
Company's political and economic aims were in conflict; in part because the Indian economy, though subordinate, proved resilient to invasion by European control or European styles of management. The Company was able neither consistently to advance the interests of private trade nor to inject growth into the economy itself.
...But the Company's attitude to the role of state power in the economy remained ambivalent at best. Its agents in Gujarat and Central India continued to secure supplies of cotton and other goods by driving other purchasers out of the market through the payment of uneconomic prices.
ক্রিস্টোফার বেইলি, ইন্ডিয়ান সোসাইটি এন্ড মেকিং অব ব্রিটিশ এম্পায়ার বইএর ১১৮ পাতা।
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