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As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of inanition by phlebotomy, while Cossim Ali was racking it above, the Company were drawing off all its nutriment below.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of inanition by phlebotomy, while Cossim Ali was racking it…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses a metaphor to illustrate the detrimental effects of British policies on the Indian provinces.
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