Some British agents of the East India Company took Indian wives, dressed as Indian princes, and wielded power as local magnates, or __________ (from an Urdu word meaning “viceroy”).
a. Sahibs.
b. Moguls.
c. Poobahs.
d. Nabobs.
d. Nabobs.
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