In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India Company, a powerful private trading company. The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in ...

Just over 400 years ago, a group of London merchants arrived here on the Indian coast hoping to do some peaceful trading. Those early pioneers dreamt of making huge profits. Over 200 years the ...

Alexander Fordyce was born in Aberdeen in 1729. He briefly worked in the hosiery trade before moving to London to take a position as a clerk to a banker. He eventually became a partner in a ...

The last European people to arrive in India were the French. The French East India Company was formed in 1664 AD during the reign of King Louis XIV to trade with India. In 1668 AD the French ...