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You now see by what secret movement the master of the mechanism has conducted the great Indian opera,--an opera of fraud, deceptions, and harlequin tricks.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke uses the metaphor of a grand opera to illustrate the fraudulent nature of colonial governance.
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