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On June 23, 1757, Robert Clive 'won' a battle that was decided before it began. A general was bribed, a nawab was betrayed, and India's richest province fell to a trading company. This wasn't a conquest — it was a purchase.

Just 13 years after Plassey, one-third of Bengal's population starved to death while the East India Company raised taxes during the famine. This is the story of history's first corporate-caused genocide.