The British Raj and the Road to Independence

Mira Kamdar · 2018

What was the East India Company? On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a royal charter giving a group of English adventurers a fifteen-year monopoly over England’s trade with Asia.

Type:
Book Chapter
Author:
Mira Kamdar
Published:
2018
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

What was the East India Company? On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a royal charter giving a group of English adventurers a fifteen-year monopoly over England’s trade with Asia. The first incarnation of the British East India Company was born. The British were...

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What is "The British Raj and the Road to Independence" about?
What was the East India Company? On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a royal charter giving a group of English adventurers a fifteen-year monopoly over England’s trade with Asia.
Who wrote "The British Raj and the Road to Independence"?
Mira Kamdar