| We invite you to think as a denizen of the Globe. | "Reversals of Fortune in the Tea Industry" Part XII: Robert Clive Secures Bengal for the EIC originally published by UPTON TEA IMPORTS, Summer 2009 © William Ukers referred to the British East India Company (EIC) as the Frankenstein of commerce. It had its own constitution, its own coinage, a private army that could acquire territory and make war, and a judicial arm to prosecute civil and criminal transgressions. At times it was difficult to distinguish between EIC objectives and that of the Crown. At other times, the Frankenstein monster raged out of control, with factors in India at odds with the EIC in London, who were equally at odds with the Crown. The story of the EIC in India exemplifies this state. ENJOY READING THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE  | SOME OF THE MOST PROFOUND THOUGHTS OF ALL TIME "A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool." "Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood." "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." "If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." CARL GUSTAV JUNG (1875-1961)
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