English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

At the end of the 18th century Bengal suddenly came under the rule of the East India  Company. The former trading company had become the sovereign, first, of a country the size  of France, and eventually of the whole Indian subcontinent. The Company was not controlled  by any positive law, be it Indian, British or international. As a consequence, the  Company’s individual and corporate greed reigned supreme, with the most dire consequences  for the native Indian population. The Indian question aroused the interest of Edmund Burke.  He saw in India a metaphor for his native Ireland and was suspicious of the corruption of  British politics by the money and influence that the Company’s men had gained in India. He  therefore made it the aim of his life to fight the Company’s unrestrained avarice by  fostering an impeachment trial against Warren Hastings, the first Governor General of  Bengal. In order to get Hastings convicted it was necessary to show that he had infringed  the law. But which law should Hastings’ judges apply? He resorted to Natural Law and Roman  Law. Thence he took the maxim »Eundem negotiatorem et dominum«, that is to say, commerce  which aims at profit, and government which aims at the welfare of the population, are  irreconcilable. Though after many years Hastings was acquitted, Burke contributed by this  trial to civilising British rule in India. Burke’s stance has recently been criticised by  the post-colonial school: He should have pleaded for the British to quit India rather than  improving their rule and thereby prolonging its existence.

The Rule of Law against the Rule of Greed: Edmund Burke against the East India Company