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 ...

The East India Company: A History by Philip Lawson (London, 1993) Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall ...

English: British East India Company flag plate in Rees's Cyclopedia, 1820 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Timothy Reuter. The East India Company is Room 101 for everyone’s economic anxieties.

1858: Beginning of the Raj. In 1858, British Crown rule was established in India, ending a century of control by the East India Company. The life and death struggle that preceded this ...

After this, in 1858, the rule of East India Company made way for Queen Victoria. On August 15, 1947, India achieved independence and the rule of the British came to an end.

Lesson 6: British Attitudes Towards India; The Story of India; The British perception of Indian culture was reflected in their policies and attitudes toward the people of India. This activity has ...

The East India Company was founded on New Year's Eve in 1600, when a royal charter granted a group of London merchants a sprawling monopoly on all English trade east of the Cape of Good Hope and ...

The British East India Company and Resource Extraction The arrival of the British East India Company in the early 1600s marked the beginning of systematic exploitation.

Yale University's prestigious history is intertwined with colonization, notably through benefactor Elihu Yale's involvement with the British East India Company and the Indian Ocean slave trade. In ...