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but became a merchant soon afterwards. During his 16 years in India, John
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production in India as well as the making of cotton fabrics in Bengal, opened a copper mint in India and was a founder of the
Westminster Life Insurance Society in London, where he later served as Alderman and in Parliament. Prinsep arrived in India as a soldier in the army of the
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A Treatise on
Political Economy, Jean-Baptiste Say, translated by Charles Robert Prinsep, M.A., J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1857
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Lt. Col. Henry Auriol
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The
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, Vol. XXIX, printed by William H. Allen & Co., London, 1839
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