![]() The company’s transition from trade to conquest has preoccupied historians ever since Edmund Burke famously attacked it as a “state in the disguise of a merchant”. ![]() ![]() The difference between these two images is the distance travelled by William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy, a graphic retelling of the East India Company’s “relentless rise” from provincial trading company to the pre-eminent military and political power in all of India. He hands a Qur’an to a white-bearded Sufi, a pious gesture that doubles as a majestic snub: pressed into a lower corner is none other than James I, an overlooked supplicant, depicted in three-quarter profile, “an angle reserved in Mughal miniatures for the minor characters”. ![]() A contemporary painting by the Mughal master miniaturist Bichitr shows a supersized Jahangir on his throne, bathed in a halo of blinding magnificence. But the arrival of the British in India in the early 1600s looked very different at the time – and from the other side. ![]() From the hindsight of the 1920s, this embassy looked like a key step in the building of a British imperium that would end with Britain’s monarchs as India’s emperors. ![]()
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I see my second ex i fell in love with beneath me was my bf i was currently dating riding with BMX tryna fight people around me then i slip into a direct part of my dream i seen my daughter she was older tho in a cage i scared her i remember holding onto this gold mermaid object and i would press down on it with both hands and speak and i can hear the divel or god in the sky then i remember my first love father of my children was chasing me i was running from him and i ended up in a aoutrime and everything went dark and scary i seen a exit and entering door i try going for the exit door and some guy on the outside of it says nope were closed for the weekend and he locks it i was stuck in there running saying no no wait then i said i love you and he says while my vision is getting closer to his face I’ve been waiting for you to say that and then i slip in to being o the beach with this kid from my old high school we were just friends tho. 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