The Sovereign's Microcosm
## Act I — The Assignment William Cavendish arrived in Calcutta in the autumn of 1844, twenty-six years old, freshly graduated from Oxford with a degree in classics that he had enjoyed and a degree in political economy that he had endured. His father, a retired East India Company officer who had made his fortune in textile trade and his regrets in country house conversation, had used every...
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