The East India Company and the British Empire

The East India Company is by far the most extractive. It's unapologetically a business that involves shipping Indian gold back to Britain and buying working barrels for its returning neighbour. And indeed, it wasn't so much that they weren't interested in introducing Western civilisation to India, but many of them even adopted Indian civilisation while they were there. The irony is that the Victorians pretend that they're there for anything other than plunder. In Britain today, there is no teaching of the empire in schools. We move from the Tudors to the Nazis with a brief stop over where Britain liberates the Caribbean slaves. As if the whole of British history had been this wonderful trajectory towards anti-rac