BY
the third quarter of the 18th century, there was one word in Britain that was
both loved and hated, and reviled and admired. The word was Nabobs. They were
not the usual Nawabs, who ruled small and large territories in India. They were
the junior and senior servants of the East India Company, who came back with
huge riches from Hindoostan, bought expensive town houses and huge tracts of
rural land, and bribed their way to political power, or a seat in British
Parliament. The Nabobs became a part of neo-aristocracy that threatened the old
order.
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