Although the reception was not always warm, the English #EastIndiaCompany made several attempts to trade in Japan in the 17th century.
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Although the reception was not always warm, the English #EastIndiaCompany made several attempts to trade in Japan in the 17th century.
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Although the reception was not always warm, the English #EastIndiaCompany made several attempts to trade in Japan in the 17th century.
🔓 This new History Matters is free for 7 days
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⚓The Red Tides of the Levant: a Powder Keg in the Sand Basin
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#pirate #imperialpolitics #MiddleEast #SuezCanal #RedSea #EastIndiaCompany #UnitedNations #GazaStrip
The East India Company just shut down. Again.
A Mumbai immigrant bought the company that colonized India. Then also went bankrupt. Redemption is complicated. But maybe don’t name your chocolate shop after a war crime.
#EastIndiaCompany #IndianHistory #ImmigrantAmbition #reenita_storyteller
#Kew #KewGardens #TheSinghTwins #ShirleySherwood
This is a remarkable exhibition of the work of the Singh Twins who seek to illustrate the story connecting empire, botany, slavery, the cotton mills of Lancashire and the British colonisation of India and the Caribbean. #EastIndiaCompany #Empire
The British #EastIndiaCompany was backed by the full power of the Empire when it traded (looted) its way across the world. In fact, the word loot is etymologically Hindi. “Lootics” was an Indian term describing those who plundered & laid waste to the countryside, harassing people along the way
⚓The Great Kraken of Volatility Unleashed: Batten the Hatches Or Feed the Fish
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#pirate #imperialpolitics #WallStreet #TheFederalReserve #TheTreasury #Gold #EastIndiaCompany #Sp500
They made criticising the Co. a crime with prison time.
The #EastIndiaCompany controlled information through #LegalCensorship.
Early 1800s: #PressRegulations passed
Sound familiar?
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#PressCensorship #FreedomOfPress #History #Journalism #BritishEmpire
#LearnOnBlueSky 📚
During the 1770 #BengalFamine, #EastIndiaCompany continued exporting rice while millions starved.
Company trade law prioritized export contracts over feeding locals.
#TradePolicy #UKHistory #BritishEmpire #IndiaHistory #ColonialEconomics #History
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When Indian rulers ☠️, the #EastIndiaCompany
• Claimed authority over widows' estates and so much more!
#Coloniallaw Stripped those rights
Legal theft from grieving women.
#History #BritishEmpire #LegalTheft #India #GenderHistory #InheritanceRights
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⚓The Spectral Rise of the Autonomous Ghost Fleet: a Captain’s Warning for 2026
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#pirate #imperialpolitics #NexgenArchitects #SiliconValley #QuartermasterBytebeard #EastIndiaCompany #LordAlgorithm #AutonomousGhostFleet
EIC opium system:
• Legal monopoly on production
• Forced farmer cult (debt)
• Fixed £ (below market)
• Can't sell elsewhere (illegal)
• All exp to China
• Major £ source
#EastIndiaCompany #DrugTrade #India #China #BritishEmpire #history #BritishHistory #BritishSociety
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Lord Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse (1848-1856):
No biological heir? → Company takes kingdom
Rani Lakshmibai? Her kingdom was annexed. She led the rebellion.
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#History #DoctrineOfLapse #IndiaHistory #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire #ColonialPolicy
William Bentinck:
History remembers the reforms. Forgets the deaths.
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#History #WilliamBentinck #IndiaHistory #Famine #SocialReform #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire #EconomicPolicy #ColonialHistory #HistoricalIrony #BritishHistory
Alexander Burnes told the East India Company that Afghans would welcome British invasion. He was wrong.
The Company blamed him after death.
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#History #Afghanistan #AlexanderBurnes #SpyHistory #EastIndiaCompany #MilitaryHistory #BritishEmpire
Needing another refuelling depot for its global empire, #Britain on #ThisDayInHistory in 1839 opened fire on #Aden in #Yemen, obliterating it. The excellent natural harbour was seized by #EastIndiaCompany & regular troops, restoring a #coffee monopoly to cut off US direct access.
The East India Company ruled India for 258 years.
What finally stopped them? The Sepoy Rebellion (1857).
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#SepoyRebellion #History #India #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire #Rebellion #IndianHistory #WorldHistory #ColonialHistory
1780: 25% of Parliament had financial ties to the EIC.
Modern corporate lobbying was born from genocide cover-ups.
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#Parliament #History #EastIndiaCompany #PoliticalCorruption #BritishHistory #Politics #WorldHistory #BritishEmpire #HistoricalFacts
A diary entry made on #ThisDayInHistory in 1757, Capt. Coote of the British #EastIndiaCompany Army in #Bengal notes he was sent to burn down a village three miles from an EIC fort, which he did without objection. The casual brutality of #BritishImperialism is akin to Nazi crimes.
DYK 19thC English men began keeping secret their relationships w/native #lovers—bibi—in India? #EastIndiaCompany guidebooks stopped carrying info about keeping #concubines as #racism increased & offspring had to go to special schools for #MixedRace kids. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
The EIC had 200k soldiers, larger than Britain's military.
Collected taxes. Wrote laws. Executed people.
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#History #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire #HistoricalFacts #Colonialism #WorldHistory #EducationalContent #DarkHistory #CorporateHistory
Or let private companies make millions with “legal” piracy ?
#EastIndiaCompany
The British #EastIndiaCompany was chartered a #JointStockCompany on #ThisDayInHistory in 1600. From badly losing the #FirstAngloMughal War in 1690, it rose to dominate #SouthAsia, forcing enclosure of lands and high taxes, causing over 10 million deaths in the #GreatBengalFamine.
The #BostonTeaParty was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1773. Colonists dressed as #Mohawk Indians (pretty racist, no?) and dumped #EastIndiaCompany tea into the harbour because the Tea Act made it cheaper than what colonists smuggled in. Conservatives, of course, hate #PropertyDamage...
Dalrymple’s masterpiece reveals how a small English company built an empire through trade, warfare, and politics. History retold with depth and brilliance.
#NonFictionReads #ColonialHistory #EastIndiaCompany
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William Dalrymple brilliantly traces how a humble trading company transformed into the most powerful empire-builder in history. A must-read for history lovers!
#WilliamDalrymple #EastIndiaCompany #BritishEmpire
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1858, the #IndianRebellion against the British #EastIndiaCompany's rule ended. The company and the British government engaged in widespread atrocities, with recent estimates of over a million killed. In the aftermath, the old #MughalEmpire was abolished.
2 of 2 The 1857 Uprising
After centuries of loot & cruelty, Indians revolted in 1857.
The #EastIndiaCompany responded with mass executions, entire villages burnt & rivers flowing red. It was not just suppression it was a genocide under corporate rule.
What they Won’t Teach You in School 🤷🏽♀️
The Erased History of the Dark Legacy of The #EastIndiaCompany
It wasn't business it was organized conquest disguised as Trade. began as a simple spice-trading venture but it had the right to wage wars, mint money & enslave economies. Which ended in Economic Slavery & Famine Profit was above Life
