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Britain didn't conquer India. A corporation did. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ The East India Company started in 1600 with 6 clerks and one goal: trade spices. Within 200 years, it had built the largest private army on earth โ bigger than Britain's own military โ and was governing 200 million people from a London office staffed by just 159 employees. Here's the part nobody talks about: 96% of that army were Indian soldiers. Indians conquered India โ for a company's shareholders. When the Bengal Famine hit in 1770 and 10 million people were dying, the Company banned local grain trading, kept exporting food for profit, and raised taxes mid-famine. ๐ That same year, they recorded their highest profits in history. It didn't end because of the deaths. It didn't end because of the famines. It ended in 1858 because the money ran out and Parliament had to bail them out. That's when Britain finally stepped in โ not for justice, but for the balance sheet. The East India Company remains the most profitable and destructive corporation in human history. And most people have never heard the full story.
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