Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...
In April 1608, when a ship named Hector – belonging to the English East India Company – arrived on the shores of Surat in present-day Gujarat, no one foresaw how some of the merchants on board would ...
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