East India Company

The Honourable Company - Part 7: A Timeline of Corruption and Conquest

25 April 2026·923 words·5 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company India Battle of Plassey Colonialism Famine

The Honourable Company - Part 6: The Ghost in the Machine

25 April 2026·1288 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Legacy Neoliberalism Multinational Orwell

The Honourable Company - Part 5: The Corporation Unmade: Reform, Revolt, and State Absorption

25 April 2026·1462 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Colonialism Reform Indian Rebellion British Empire

The Honourable Company - Part 4: The Poison and the Leaf: Tea, Opium, and the Opium Wars

25 April 2026·1382 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Opium China Opium Wars Tea Free Trade

The Honourable Company - Part 3: The Conquest of Bengal: When the Merchant Became King

25 April 2026·1438 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company India Battle of Plassey Colonialism Famine

The Honourable Company - Part 2: Silver, Spice, and Squalor

25 April 2026·1098 words·6 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Trade Silver Mercantilism VOC

The Honourable Company - Part 1: The Charter and the Monopoly

25 April 2026·1307 words·7 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Colonialism Monopoly Joint-Stock Mercantilism

The Crescent and the Ganges - Part 8: The Shadow of the Company: How a Corporation Ended Eight Centuries of Rule

21 June 2025·424 words·2 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Colonialism Economic Extraction Mughal Decline Corporate Power 1857 Rebellion Modern Legacy Historical Case Studies Policy and Critique Social Dynamics Systems Thinking

Analyzing how the East India Company systematically dismantled the Mughal Empire through economic extraction and administrative co-optation rather than military conquest.

The Alchemy of Empire - Part 3: The Corporation That Ruled – The EIC and the Privatization of Sovereignty

3 September 2024·893 words·5 mins

History and Critical Analysis East India Company Corporate History Capitalism Sovereignty Colonialism Historical Case Studies Systems Thinking Trade and Supply Chains Military and Logistics

Investigating how the East India Company pioneered the corporate-state hybrid, enabling private profit-driven governance and extraction on an imperial scale.