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Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:56 AM<br>Subject: East India Company - Economist Article - A private army of 200 000 men<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21541753" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21541753</a><div>
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The East India Company</h2><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:2.2em;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:27px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif">
The Company that ruled the waves</h3><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:1.4em;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:21px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif">
As state-backed firms once again become forces in global business, we ask what they can learn from the greatest of them all</h1><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:20px;color:rgb(102,102,102);clear:both;float:left;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif">
Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition</p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:10px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif">
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</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Company�s growing involvement in politics infuriated its mighty army of critics still further. How could it justify having a monopoly of trade as well as the right to tax the citizens of India? And how could a commercial organisation justify ruling 90m Indians, controlling 70m acres (243,000 square kilometres) of land, issuing its own coins, complete with the Company crest, and <b>supporting an army of 200,000 men</b>, all of which the East India Company did by 1800?�</span></div>
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