Its effect must be (so far as it could operate without being eluded) to change the whole face of that industrious country, in order to render it a field for the produce of crude materials subservient to the manufactures of Great Britain.
Burke warns that the Company's policies would fundamentally alter the economic landscape of India to serve British interests.
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