Case for Bangla Nationalism in gold dust for opium from the eastward, "But from the year 1705 the reverse has taken place. The Company's trade produces no returns. Specie is rarely imported by the foreign companies, nor brought into Bengal from other parts of Hindustan in any considerable quantities."3 Thus, colonial rule began as a method of turning military power into commercial profit; and the profit was so high that it enabled the East India Company