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In the 18th Century, the primary source of the Company's profits in Bengal became taxation in conquered and controlled provinces, as the factories became fortresses and administrative hubs for networks of tax collectors that expanded into enormous cities. The Mughal Empire was the richest in the world in 1700, and the East India Company tried to strip it bare for a century thereafter. Dalrymple calls it "the single largest transfer of wealth until the Nazis." [Dalrymple, William (2019). The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company]
The Mughal Empire were a brutal genocidal empire who had an aim to murder a minimum of 100k Hindu and Sikh Indians a year… they invaded and ruled over an 800 year period.

The population of India went from 600 million to 200 million in 500 years under Mughal rule. It’s the biggest genocide in human history.
 

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