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This letter contains a perfect plan of policy, both of compulsion and encouragement, which must in a very considerable degree operate destructively to the manufactures of Bengal.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes a comprehensive policy plan by the Company that would harm Bengal's manufacturing sector.
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