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What can we learn from the company’s unscrupulous adventures?
This riveting account of how a piratical corporation subjugated India resonates with today’s global capitalism
How a motley City gathering morphed into history’s most rapacious corporation — and why its story matters today
A descendent tells a touching tale of an East India Company employee who went rogue in 1850s Nepal
The national story is centred around the war against the Nazis rather than the empire
If there is one lesson from the history of long-lived companies, it is the need to maintain flexibility
‘Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, win everywhere’, by Ravi Venkatesan
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