With a well-paid civil service, Clive's successors Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.
Hasting and Cornwallis made private deals.
mnli hypothesis: Hasting and Cornwallis made private deals. premise: With a well-paid civil service, Clive's successors Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.