Charles was a whiggish improving sort, who yearned to expropriate the landlords in favour of the true proprietors, the peasants who actually tilled the soil. Like many other modernizers, and there were plenty of them in India in the 1980s and 1840s, he would not have dreamed of applying these radical nostrums to England. He believed in 'socialism in one country', as long as it wasn't his own.
F. Mount, The tears of the Rajas (2015), 398
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