Virji Vora was a significant credit provider and client for both the Dutch East India Company and the British East India ...

The British East India company had set sights on occupying the wealth Awadh kingdom, and the plan was set in motion with the ...

Bollywood and history have an old connection so here are are 8 bollywood films based on the same. A 1960 epic drama about the love story of Prince Salim and Anarkali, a courtesan, set during the ...

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 ...

The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...

The UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to carpet London in ...

From the mid-19th century onward, Irish and Indian nationalists forged strong personal and associational connections, ...

The East India Company's army in India totalled 260,000 soldiers -- twice the size of the British peacetime army. "They engaged in land dispossession, violence, and mergers and acquisitions ...

After the success of his business, he became a crucial financier for the British East India Company. Moreover, historical accounts reveal that the Gujarat businessman lent Rs 2,00,000 (a colossal ...