You will have multiple answers, the following are:
1. Historians with different perspectives
2. Historians with different points of view
3. Historians with varying personal biases
4. Historians with different interests of cause and effect
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He was a personal Physician for the Earl Shaftesbury.
The main reason was that India as a civilization was producing vast amounts of goods that the other nations and civilizations were wanting to export from them and import to themselves - this made India relevant and made them a global trade player.
A Charleston Mercury editorial published in 1860