Tom Hardy's new FX series may be fictional, the corporation his character takes on in Taboo, the East India Company, is very real. The dark FX series set in 1814 seems inspired by real events ...

When the British East India Company set sail to explore—and exploit—the riches of the world in the 1600s, it was based out of an unpretentious London house. How it grew from that to toppling mighty ...

Following the revolt of 1857, the company was dissolved in 1874 after its soldiers rebelled against the British. For decades, ...

The East India Company, a trading firm with its own army, was masterful at manipulating governments for its own profit. It’s the prototype for today’s multinationals. By William Dalrymple Mr.

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. By William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury; 576 pages; $35 and £30. AT THE START of his new book William Dalrymple notes that it is “always a mistake ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Ian Morris THE ANARCHY The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how after ...

EXCLUSIVE: Siddharth Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current president of the Producers Guild of India, has picked up exclusive screen rights to The Anarchy: The Relentless ...

Andrea Major receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. “When you left London the East India Company was a trading company,” Tom Hardy’s troubled anti-hero James Delaney is warned in ...

The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers selected out of papers presented at its annual sessions on all ...