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The History of the East Indian Company
The historian is central to history, but does that mean everyone will read their own lesson into Afghanistan? Each generation finds new things to recognize. In an age when we have lives being watched by Facebook and Google, it's far more interesting to rediscover the East Indian Company as a militarized corporation. And this is something which speaks to us and we notice it, but which was not an issue for the Victorians.