ABSTRACT
The protection afforded by the Company’s dustucks was in practice so complete that they rapidly became saleable commodities. Indian merchants bought dustucks from the Company’s servants and carried on trade wherever possible under the British flag. The most damning evidence of the practices comes not from Indians but from contemporary English sources; and in view of the effect on the Indian economy of the disorders, some of this evidence must be quoted. The great power of the English intimidates the people from resistance, the indolence of the Bengalees, or the difficulty of gaining access to those who might do them justice, prevents our having knowledge of the oppressions, and encourages their continuance, to the great though unmerited, scandal of our government. The country government was destroyed by the violence of their agents; and individual tyranny succeeded to national arrangement.
