The English and French Companies
UNIT 1 · PART 3 · ADVENT OF THE EUROPEANS Two more companies now entered the same waters — one built by merchants who came to answer to a king, the other built by...
Category: Modern Indian History
The Company That Outlived Its Captains: Dutch, Danes and the European Scramble
Unit 1, Part 2 — how the joint-stock charter of 1602 changed the contest for India, why the Dutch traded a subcontinent for the Spice Islands, and what the Danes left behind at Serampore.
The Sea Route Opens: Why the Portuguese Came First
Unit 1, Part 1 — how a problem of arithmetic in the pepper trade sent Portugal to sea, and how an open Indian Ocean became a licensed one. With one Mains question and ten Prelims MCQs.
