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All Netherlands gains in Asia-result activity of the East Indian company which has was in essence a prototype of present monopolies. The company was the main tool of formation of the Netherlands colonial empire. It has existed almost 200 years-to 1798 when under the pretext of colonial policy change it has been abolished though and after that methods of operation of colonies have not undergone any essential changes.
The East Indian company leant against powerful fleet, a network of forts and strengthenings, and also the armies subordinated to it, with extraordinary cruelty finishing with the rebellious people. It maintained the population by means of the local is feudal-officialdom, passed to service to Dutches.
The English governor of Java (in 1811-1816) in the book Â"History of JavaÂ" so wrote G.S.Rafls about the East Indian company: Â"the Dutch company movable by exclusively spirit of a profit and less sparing citizens, than is no time vest-indsky the planter spared crowd of the slaves working on its plantation, - for this last has paid money for people whom it has got in the property, meanwhile as the first paid nothing, - this company has started all existing device of despotism to squeeze out of the population last penny requisitions and to force it to work to a full exhaustion. Thus, it has aggravated the harm caused to the country by the whimsical and semibarbarous government, combining in the activity all practical art of the politician with all monopolistically egoism of a merchantÂ". This company managed to affirm eventually as India, at its Malabarsky coast.
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