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2. www.radiotimes.com › tv › entertainmentThe East India Company in BBC1's Taboo: Who were they? How ...

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   Mar 16, 2018 · The East India Company has popped up in TV and film a few times before, perhaps most notably in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series as embodied by fictional Governer/Lord Chairman Lord Cutler ...

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   Feb 24, 2017 · Discussing the show before it aired, writer Stephen Knight referred to the East India Company as “the equivalent of the CIA, the NSA and the biggest, baddest multinational corporation on earth ...

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4. theweek.com › 80189 › tom-hardy-takes-on-the-eastWhat was the East India Company? Tom Hardy takes ... - The Week

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   Jan 4, 2017 · Pretty big. By the 1800s, the East India Company generated almost half of England's trade, ensuring its interests were often indiscernible from the country's. It became London's largest employer ...

5. www.imdb.com › title › tt4321052The Birth of Empire: The East India Company (TV Mini Series ...

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   The Birth of Empire: The East India Company: With Dan Snow, Robert Hutchinson, Zareer Masani, Nick Robins. Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionized the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems. 400 years ago British merchants landed on the coast of India and founded a trading post to export goods to London.

6. www.theguardian.com › world › 2015The East India Company: The original corporate raiders

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   Mar 4, 2015 · The painting shows a scene from August 1765, when the young Mughal emperor Shah Alam, exiled from Delhi and defeated by East India Company troops, was forced into what we would now call an act of ...

7. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › tvThe Birth of Empire: The East India Company, TV review

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   May 1, 2014 · In terms of power and influence, the East India Company in its pomp made Apple Inc look like village fruiterers. Its legacy is woven into the existence of everything from major Indian cities like ...

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   Was the East India Company wrong?

   • They were wrong. The slow encroachment of the East India Company on Indian land, resources and political authority continued unabated until it was violently cut short by the Indian Uprising of 1857. Sir Stuart Strange.

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   Who plays the East India Company in 'taboo'?

   • The East India Company has popped up in TV and film a few times before, perhaps most notably in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series as embodied by fictional Governer/Lord Chairman Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), who coincidentally shared scenes with actor Jonathan Pryce (who plays EIC bigwig Sir Stuart Strange in Taboo).

   The East India Company in BBC1's Taboo: Who were they? How powerful

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   Was the East India Company a trading company?

   • “When you left London the East India Company was a trading company,” Tom Hardy’s troubled anti-hero James Delaney is warned in the second episode of the BBC’s prime-time drama Taboo. “Now it is God Almighty.”

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   Why did the Indians form a company?

   • They agreed to form a company to exploit the growing demand for goods such as textiles and spices coming from the East Indies, in particular India and parts of Southeast Asia. The aim was to get a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I that would grant them the exclusive rights to trade with the East.

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   Why did the East India Company take sides?

   • The East India Company started to take sides with one local ruler over another when provinces it was interested in expanding into went to war. In return for their support, the company was rewarded with more contracts and more opportunities. The East India Company had gone into the diplomacy game, and it proved remarkably good at it.

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   Is the East India Company God Almighty?

   • “Now it is God Almighty.” Discussing the show before it aired, writer Stephen Knight referred to the East India Company as “the equivalent of the CIA, the NSA and the biggest, baddest multinational corporation on earth, all rolled into one self-righteous, religiously motivated monolith”.

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   The East India Company limped on for a few more years before finally being wound up on 1st June 1874. ‘It accomplished a work such as in the whole history of the human race no other trading Company ever attempted,’ said The Times of London as the company was in its death throes, ‘and such as none, surely, is likely to attempt in the years ...