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Fraud, injustice, oppression, peculation, engendered in India, are crimes of the same blood, family, and cast with those that are born and bred in England.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke draws a parallel between crimes committed in India and those in England, highlighting a shared moral responsibility.
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