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 ...

“But actually, what we’re talking about here is the artistic and aesthetic achievement of India, particularly of the artisans and of the designers, and of the interaction between their ...

In the wake of that nonviolent mass mobilization, with the international press watching, the British were limited in the violence they could deploy in India. As Elkins has it, Gandhian approaches ...