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Worse, far worse, has been the fate of the poor creatures, the natives of India, whom the hypocrisy of the Company has betrayed into complaint of oppression and discovery of peculation.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses concern for the plight of Indian natives who have suffered under the Company's hypocrisy.
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