First encounter of a European Company with India in 18thcentury. Famous authors Brecht and Feuchtwanger have written a conspiracy drama on thefirst global player, the BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY , in traditional Indian society.Governor Warren Hastings as the efficient modern manager wants to transform Indian society and uproot poverty. Old Indian rulers fear for their influence and try the old game of cheating and corruption. Inside the East India Company a power struggle ends with the dismissal of the Governor and a Parliamentary enquiry in the British Parliament. Karl Marx' economic analysisot 1853 takes over from the romantic philosophical views on India in Europe.He acknowledges the laying of modern material foundations of Western societyin Asia by the "Multnationals". Modern authors on the contrary underline the cultural differences between Europe and India."The Perspectices" give a collection of the different views.
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