What lay at the core of successful Indian enterprise at a time when the ascendancy of the new power, the English East India Company, and of British capital swept all competition away? How did ...

They failed to compete and The East India Company turned their attention to southern India. When further English requests for trading privileges were turned down, the East India Company blockaded ...

The exhibition, ‘Looking East’, highlights the lives of soldiers, colonial administrators, and civil bureaucrats from Ireland who sought their futures in India during British colonialism.

Francis Day was in love. As he sailed down the Coromandel coast from Machilipatnam looking for a place to set up a factory and perhaps a future settlement for the East India Company, Day was clear ...

Captain William Hawkins arrived at Surat, during Jahangir’s reign in 1608, on behalf of the East India Company. He was accompanied by a number of English merchants and carried a letter from King James ...

Eden Gardens in the present day Wikimedia Commons Cricket. India’s national obsession and favourite pastime. By the time ...

A 100-metre-long steel girder has been installed over four railway tracks in Gujarat for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. Weighing 1,432 metric tonnes, the steel structure was fabricated in ...

Donald Trump claims that South Africa's expropriation law is aimed at ‘seizing ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation’. This is a falsehood. Some historical perspective ...

We've all seen the boxes sitting next to each other on the grocery shelves, but what is it that actually separates English ...

People's Democratic Republic (PDR), in South East Asia -Alstom Projects India Ltd has announced that the Company has been awarded an order worth Rs 2080 million for supply of Boiler Turbine ...

The group cited the example of the English East India Company, which it accused of “many colonial crimes” and became a “law unto itself” as a pioneer of exploitative practices followed by ...