The Empire's Beast
Arthur Hastings III sat in the archive room of the East India Company's London headquarters and read a report that would have destroyed him if he had believed in destruction. The report was from a district collector in Bengal, dated 1879. It described a village of three hundred souls that had been driven to starvation by a tax policy Arthur's own department had designed. The collector wrote:...
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