Estimated Net worth of Virji Vora The East India Company (EIC) factory records describe Virji Vora as the richest merchant of his time, even referring to him as a "merchant prince." According to ...

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. The Battle of Plassey in ...

The Gorkha Empire was on a warpath, and the British East India Company saw it as a threat to its own expansionist ambitions. This five-part series looks at the bravery of the Gorkhali troops under its ...

This article examines how the East India Company’s 1856 annexation of the Indian Kingdom of Awadh informed British Conservative responses to the Indian Revolt in 1857 and 1858. Addressing scholarship ...