By the 1760’s, the East India Company had grown from a tiny band of merchants with a small foothold in India - into a colossal trading empire, pouring wealth into the pockets of its share ...

the East India Company agent at Masulipatnam, who was in charge of some aspects of the trade, and Francis Day, the man in charge at Armagaon, in managing the trade from local merchants.

MUHAMMAD ZAYEN IRSHAD ...

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The bank was founded and largely managed by European traders. They worked closely with the English East India Company. The bank was staffed by mostly British nationals who were drawn mainly from ...

Patna's Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820 Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power.

On this day, East India Company official Samuel Turner was appointed chief of ... He had not been able to visit Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, but had been told that merchants from India would be received ...