The British East India Company was founded on the last day of 1600 through a royal charter signed by Queen Elizabeth I. In many ways it failed to achieve its initial aim of trade in spices and other items favored by the English people. British...

The Honourable East India Company (HEIC), often colloquially referred to as "John Company", and simply as the East India Company[1] or the "Company Bahadur" in India, was an early joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue...

John Keay has written a history as fast-paced and gripping as any novel. Using language as rich and colorful as the merchants, seadogs, and soldiers who people his narrative, Keay recounts the near-mythic exploits of those who built a trading colossus and won...

Bencoolen. A History of the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825. By ALAN HARFIELD. Barton-on-Sea: A & J Partnership, 1995. Pp. xx, 624. Maps, Plans, illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This rather large book is a history of...

The rights of the British East India Company.