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These, my Lords, are the effects universally produced by the Hindoo polity throughout that vast region, before it was distorted and put out of frame by the barbarism of foreign conquests.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke discusses the positive effects of the Hindoo polity before it was disrupted by foreign conquests.
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