Oak, Mandar; Swamy, Anand V. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 352-366
The East India Company's conquest of India was facilitated by the behavior of its Indian rivals who not only did not ally against it, but often supported it militarily. Historians have typically attributed this to myopia, the failure to understand the long-term threat represented by the Company....