This is where things become... complicated. [ She wets her lips, a lot of this was a matter of deliberately confusing bureaucracy. ] Over a hundred years ago, the English came to India. They arrived first as traders, and they were represented by a Company, called the East India Company. That was not... a problem, of itself.
... But in time... they wanted more than that. They were given certain areas to rule by leaders looking to keep them interested. Then they took more, from defending themselves. Then other rulers seceded them other parts of land. Soon, they no longer were the East India Company. They ruled from Calcutta in to the north east to Madras in the south. They were becoming the United India Company, though that was not quite yet. They still had to delegate power through many Rajas and local customs.
[ That laugh, she cannot help but be bitter in. ]
Which is where... I came in. Do you know a law called the Doctrine of Lapse?
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Date: 2019-01-11 08:52 am (UTC)This is where things become... complicated. [ She wets her lips, a lot of this was a matter of deliberately confusing bureaucracy. ] Over a hundred years ago, the English came to India. They arrived first as traders, and they were represented by a Company, called the East India Company. That was not... a problem, of itself.
... But in time... they wanted more than that. They were given certain areas to rule by leaders looking to keep them interested. Then they took more, from defending themselves. Then other rulers seceded them other parts of land. Soon, they no longer were the East India Company. They ruled from Calcutta in to the north east to Madras in the south. They were becoming the United India Company, though that was not quite yet. They still had to delegate power through many Rajas and local customs.
[ That laugh, she cannot help but be bitter in. ]
Which is where... I came in. Do you know a law called the Doctrine of Lapse?