We are often led into mistakes concerning the government of Hindostan, by comparing it with those governments where the prince is armed with a full, speculative, entire authority, and where the great people have, with great titles, no privileges at all, or, having privileges, have those privileges only as subjects.
Burke critiques common misconceptions about governance in India by contrasting it with more centralized forms of authority.
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