A painting of a British East India Company official riding on an elephant at the end of the 18th century. Photograph by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd, Alamy In 1600, a group of English ...

On the other hand, a new foundation of the British empire in India was being laid, with the colonisation of India by the English East India Company (EIC). Amidst all the chaos, the EIC developed a ...

A historical painting showing the victory of Indian ruler Tipu Sultan against the British troops of East India Company was sold for £630,000 at an auction hosted by Sotheby’s on Wednesday.

What opinion in Britain came to recognise as a new British empire in India remained under the authority of the East India Company, even if the importance of the national concerns now involved ...

Founded in 1599 to run British trade in Asia, the East India Company evolved from being a profitable corporation with a security force to being a mighty army with a trading division. By 1765 ...

Arrival of the British and the establishment of British East India Company was the outcome of the Portuguese traders who earn enormous profit by selling their merchandise in India. Being motivated ...

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 ...

The Customs Department on February 29 handed over a 206-year-old tracker telescope of the British ... UK EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1818, SI.NO.LEO103' and engraved with a logo of a crown, a spider ...