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ROBERT TOMBS: How today's rapacious tech barons recall the private company so overmighty it even had TWICE as many soldiers as the British Army

The most dazzling oligarch in the world, 260 years ago, was probably Clive Of India, the spectacularly daring but grasping English governor of Bengal.