Wars were accordingly discouraged by repeated injunctions and menaces: and that the servants might not be bribed into them by the native princes, they were strictly forbidden to take any money whatsoever from their hands.
Burke explains how the Company discouraged wars through strict prohibitions to avoid corruption.
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