The East India Company established the British rule in India, and ruled the Indian subcontinent and other major parts of the world for nearly centuries, expanding the British Empire to the point where ...

The East India Company’s royal charter gave it the ability to “wage war,” and initially it used military force to protect itself and fight rival traders. In 1757, however, it seized control ...

1547012 Shah 'Alam conveying the grant of the Diwani to Lord Clive, August 1765 (oil on canvas) by West, Benjamin (1738-1820); British Library, London, UK; (add.info.: Major-General Robert Clive, 1st ...

W hen the British East India Company set sail to explore—and exploit—the riches of the world in the 1600s, it was based out of an unpretentious London house. How it grew from that to toppling ...

On June 1, 1874, the East India Company was dissolved. East India Arms, a bar named after the company. Lloyds of London, built on the site of the company's old headquarters, is in the background.

East India Company. British involvement in India during the 18th century can be divided into two phases, one ending and the other beginning at mid-century.

On New Yearâ?Ts Day in 1818, Peshwa Baji Rao II, the ruler of the Peshwa faction of the Maratha Confederacy, which covered much of central India, led a 28,000-strong force towards Pune, a city on the ...

A painting by Benjamin West depicts the moment in 1765 when the British governor of Bengal, Robert Clive, secured tax revenues for the East India Company from the Mughal emperor.