Birth Of Empire: The East India Company

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Dan Snow travels through India chronicling the rise and fall of the East India Company. By 1800 the East India Company had grown from a tiny band of merchants into a colossal trading empire. But scandal and corruption in the 18th century had led to a curtailment of its powers by the British government. The state now contro...
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In this new two-part series, Dan Snow travels through India chronicling the rise and fall of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems. 400 years ago British merchants landed on the coast of India and founded a trading post to export goods to London. Ov...
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