After the crash of the East India Trading Company, the British government took over the Company, expanded its territories and built an empire. The Company was in the middle of a cash-flow crisis ...

That meant that the East India Company’s servants were no longer here to trade, to make money through buying and selling, but as colonial administrators, running its vast territories on behalf ...

The powerful nations we know today - like Norman-ruled England and the fragmented territories that will ... power that foreshadowed the East India Company - a powerful British trading corporation ...

in Bengal who facilitated the East India Company’s entrenching in India. Others she profiles include the Gujarati businessman Tarwady Arunji who ‘came forward along with others to advance ...