Just twenty years since Parliament extended its prized Royal Charter, it was up for renewal again. Every time the East India Company’s Royal Charter had come up for renewal there were calls to ...

This is where it all started. On December 31st 1600, the East India Company was established by royal charter in Londonand granted a monopoly on trade with the East by Queen Elizabeth the First.

The Company received a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 AD authorizing it to trade in the East. Queen was herself a share holder in the East India Company. Expansion in ...

The East India Company is remembered today as the world ... and echoed by his patron Warren Hastings. In remarks on the Charter Act of that year, both men urged the Company to engage with ...