Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Colonial Indian companies

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.

2 episodes

Episodes in this category also belong to the following categories:

  1. The Dutch East India Company

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company, which dominated the Asian spice trade in the 17th century and is sometimes called the first multinational corporation.

    3 March 2016

    listen ↗

    Featuring: Anne Goldgar, Chris Nierstrasz, Helen Paul

     
  2. The East India Company

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the powerful private trading company that redrew the map of India, built an empire and reinvented the fashions and the foodstuffs of Britain.

    26 June 2003

    listen ↗

    Featuring: Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra