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Yesterday, I had one of my most interesting visits and meetings, with the owner of the #company that virtually created #capitalism !!
Interested to know more? See the thread🧵
Interested to know more? See the thread🧵
@TheEastIndia Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China.
The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonized parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf
The rest, as they say, is history.
The rest, as they say, is history.
