Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… as receiving a bribe is no more in India than complying with an established custom’ . 14 This was a case of what Edmund Burke called ‘geographical morality’, a moral relativity dependent on local customs. 15 14 . Rev. John Logan, A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings Esq (1789), p. 45. 15 . The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, in sixteen volumes (London: printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808-1827), vii, p. 104. Image Legend James …
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