Excerpt from The History of the British Empire in India, Vol. 2 of 4
Company should be permitted to purchase the Zemindarship of thirty-seven towns, in the same manner as they had been authorised to purchase Calcutta, Sattanutty, and Govindpore Never theless another year elapsed before the hostility of the vizier could be overcome, which yielded at last to an influence universally recognized in the easth namely, open and shameless bribery.
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