BBC’s hit drama Taboo pitted a hard man, played by Tom Hardy, against the East India Company in a one-man struggle against a powerful trading company. But how close to reality is the show?

Entries between the 1600s and 1800s record finances, ... East India Company soldiers, as well as local Indian, Portuguese, and Arab “lascars” transported by the ships.

His aim was to recapture it from the British East India Company. At the village of Bhima Koregaon, however, he was halted by a small Company force numbering 800. Rao II sent 2,000 of his finest ...

This army was largely made up of Indian soldiers called sepoys close sepoy An Indian soldier who fought in the East India Company’s army, but had previously been part of the Mughal army. .

The East India Company was founded on New Year's Eve in 1600, when a royal charter granted a group of London merchants a sprawling monopoly on all English trade east of the Cape of Good Hope and ...

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.

At the height of its power, the East India Company controlled large parts of India with its own armed forces. But it was disbanded after soldiers of the company's own army rose in revolt against ...