On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
Her late reduction of India, under Clive and his successors, was not so properly a conquest as an extermination of mankind.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine condemns Britain's actions in India under Clive, describing them as an extermination rather than a conquest.
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