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 was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

Many of the works Maazi Merchant revives were commissioned by European patrons: East India Company officers documenting the land they ruled, botanists chronicling native plants, or British ...