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All these varied and successive sales shook the country to pieces.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “All these varied and successive sales shook the country to pieces.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke describes the destructive impact of economic exploitation on Indian society during British rule.
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