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This study examines the influence of commercial interests onthe expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age ofCornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptionswhich have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism inthat part of India. The chief of these is that the reform of theEast India Company's administration in the 1780s brought the policyof the Bombay presidency under the firm control of thegovernor-general in Bengal and of the Court of Directors and theBoard of Control in London.

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