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The East India charter is a charter to establish monopoly and to create power.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The East India charter is a charter to establish monopoly and to create power.”
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He argues that the East India charter is designed to create monopoly and consolidate power.
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