How the East India Company became the world’s most powerful business The trading firm took command of an entire subcontinent and left behind a legacy that still impacts modern life.

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 ...

Discovery and Penny Dreadful actor Shazad Latif plays Nemo, and IGN was recently able to chat with him about the series, the first two episodes of which have now debute ...

East India Company: the original corporate raiders How the British trading behemoth took control of 200 million people and one of the richest empires on Earth.

When 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 ...

They were also major developments in the history of what was for 274 years the world’s most successful multinational corporation: the East India Company.

Founded in 1599 to run British trade in Asia, the East India Company evolved from being a profitable corporation with a security force to being a mighty army with a trading division.

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.

The British East India Company, the Hindu right and a battle over oppression In early January, lower caste Indians in Maharashtra gather to commemorate a battle. This year, they were attacked.

John Dean’s survival had enormous value to the East India Company because Francis Gostling, the captain of the Sussex, who had also survived the shipwreck, had given a different version of ...