In an ironic twist of fate, the East India Company, which once ruled India for nearly 200 years, is now owned by an Indian business tycoon.
In Governors of Empire, historian Amar Farooqui traces the journeys each of these men undertook, from arriving on Indian shores, through acquiring territories using equal parts trade agreements and ...
Kittur Rani Chennamma led one of India’s earliest armed revolts against the East India Company in 1824, decades before 1857.
On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I signed a royal charter granting the East India Company exclusive rights to conduct trade in the Indian Ocean region. The document was precise in its limitations ...
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