books.google.co.uk - Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Scandal_of_Empire.html?id=LqLF0yVLg2UC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Scandal of Empire