The East India Company (TRIH ep 75)
1756 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian William Dalrymple about the rise, power and eventual fall of the East India Company. Dalrymple traces the company's origins in 1599 as a private, profit-driven joint-stock venture that initially sought spices in the East Indies before shifting to India's textile trade.
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