The East India Company’s charter began with an original sin—Elizabeth I granted the company a perpetual monopoly on trade with the East Indies. With its monopoly giving it enhanced access to ...

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 ...

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.

The East India Company, a trading firm with its own army, was masterful at manipulating governments for its own profit. It’s the prototype for today’s multinationals.

THE ANARCHY The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire By William Dalrymple Nowadays, almost every M.B.A. program includes classes on business ethics. William ...

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. By William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury; 576 pages; $35 and £30. A T THE START of his new book William Dalrymple notes that it is “always a ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, Company officials ...

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 ...