<p>In 'A Caution to the Directors of the East-India Company,' an anonymous author offers a robust critique and a prescriptive warning to the oligarchs of one of history's most influential corporations. Marrying the forensic analysis of an insider with the eloquent persuasion of a skilled essayist, the work emerges as both an artifact and a surprisingly modern cautionary tale on corporate governance and imperial ethics. It employs sharp rhetoric a...