What they did in India was mostly the result of its field team (middle management) taking things into its own hands and operating almost completely free from ov

What they did in India was mostly the result of its field team (middle management) taking things into its own hands and operating almost completely free from oversight. The EIC was only supposed to establish trade between the two continents, instead it became a rogue mercenary power-broker between the subcontinent's fragmented pseudo-kingdoms and ended up taking control of all South Asia. From whatever reports the upper management and regulators could scrape up at that time, there were many voices raised against the mayhem this enterprise was causing, but all complaints were quickly shot down after they saw the kind of riches the company was sending back home.