After the crash of the East India Trading Company, the British government took over the Company, expanded its territories and built an empire. The Company was in the middle of a cash-flow crisis ...
In ‘The Other Mohan’, Amrita Shah tells the story of Indian migration through the journey of her great-grandfather from ...
According to historian Utsa Patnaik, the British looted about $ 45 trillion from India between 1765 and 1938. This amount is ...
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Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the ...
This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the ...
The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...
James William Grant, an East India Company official posted in Malda, and Captain George W. Lloyd discovered Darjeeling for the British in 1828. Nearly two centuries on, Grant’s ...
A group of Indian troopers who fought for the English, Ghulam Ali Khan, 1815-16 The English East India Company, founded in 1600, was established for trading. But as the powerful multinational ...