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Adam Smith argued that the Bengal Famine of 1769 would have been much less of a tragedy under a free trade policy.
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The Governor of Bengal accused the East India Company of turning a crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe.
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George Santayana had the chance to observe our national character at the height of Empire.
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Anglo-Saxon abbot Elfric tentatively likened the new-born Jesus to an egg.
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Canadian sailor William Hall was summoned over to India to help face down the Indian Mutiny.
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During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.
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