Arrival of the British and the establishment of British East India Company was the outcome of the Portuguese traders who earn enormous profit by selling their merchandise in India. Being motivated ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

Arrival of the British and establishment of East India Company: It was the enormous profit earned by the Portuguese traders from the sale of their merchandise in India that drew attention of ...

The Sons of Liberty kept things stirred up. And still the aggravations continued. 1773 — The Tea Act was passed by Parliament. The British-owned East India Tea Company was up to its eyeballs in ...

A pioneer of sorts, Radhika Batra has explored her love for tea to become one of India’s first tea sommeliers. We engage with her in some tea talk. Varsha Naik Updated : Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST ...

The first meteorological observatories were established by the British East India Company. The Calcutta Observatory started in 1785, the Madras Observatory in 1796 and the Bombay Observatory in 1826.

Since the 17th century, the British-owned East India Company had controlled large parts ... Indians were pushed to produce crops, such as tea, that Britain could sell for high prices.

Abdul Kadir Bawla was one of the wealthiest men in Bombay at the time of his murder [Alamy] ...

It was obvious that as a hub of industry, education business and commerce, Calcutta was destined to witness some of the biggest and most extravagant Christmas celebrations as soon as the British East ...

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On January 1, 1818 a battalion of around 900 soldiers under the British East India Company marched from Shirur to Pune in Maharashtra to face an army consisting of 20,000 soldiers led by Baji Rao II.