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The East India Trading Company had relatively few British people compared with Indians and relied on the existing labor force.
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“East India Trading Company was like, just a ratio of British people to Indian people was just like not that high. Right. So.”
“They just had to rely on the existing labor force, but they were still able to take over because of.”Play from 1:35:00Report a misattribution
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