Powerful corporations operating across vast distances could adapt to local circumstances and enter diplomatic arrangements that endured for centuries.

“driven by those motives acting with almost planetary powers at vast distances had the flexibility on the ground to take advantage of local circumstances to insert themselves into diplomatic arrangements which have persisted for centuries with all the accumulated grievances here we're the fresh newcomers we have obviously skills of what we do as you say taking control of the tax revenue of Bengal effectively took control of the entire political orbit what can you do without taxation reorient that towards the shareholders”