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The East India Company

The East India Company

The World's Most Powerful Corporation

Tirthankar Roy
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Gurcharan Das
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This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder.

In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it-and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now.

‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’-Financial Express

Imprint: India Portfolio

Published: Jan/2016

ISBN: 9780143426172

Length : 268 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

The East India Company

The World's Most Powerful Corporation

Tirthankar Roy
,
Gurcharan Das

This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder.

In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it-and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now.

‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’-Financial Express

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Tirthankar Roy

Tirthankar Roy is professor of economic history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Economic History of India, 1857–2010, The East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation, The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India and co-author of The Economic History of Colonialism, and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy.

Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das is a renowned author, commentator and thought leader. He is the author of two bestsellers, India Unbound and The Difficulty of Being Good, which are volumes one and two of a trilogy on life’s goals, of which Kama: The Riddle of Desire is the third. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a collection of plays for the theatre, Three Plays, and a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm. His recent book India Grows at Night was on the Financial Times’ list of best books of 2013. He is general editor for Penguin’s multivolume Story of Indian Business series. He studied philosophy at Harvard University and was CEO, Procter & Gamble India, before he became a full-time writer. He writes a regular column for six Indian newspapers, including the Times of India, and occasional pieces for the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs and New York Times. He lives with his wife in Delhi.

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