The speaker says the East India Company did not necessarily place its most competent people in charge of its eastern operations, while describing Robert Clive and his subordinates as fairly competent.

“it wasn't necessarily like the most competent people who were in charge of the eastern journey i mean we're the like pretty competent people robert clive”

“and his underlings um and you would have instances for in for example i think the navab of bengal uh right before the british are able to gain control of bengal which is the initial attack space that they set up in order”