He became wealthy by building ships for the British East India Company. However, for many Indians, life under the control of the East India Company meant poverty and violence from British merchants.
He is also known for financing the British East India Company. From 1617 to 1670, Vora was a key financier for the East India Company, lending money to British traders looking to start their ...
The British East India Company and Resource Extraction The arrival of the British East India Company in the early 1600s marked the beginning of systematic exploitation. The Battle of Plassey in ...
A British construction company chaired by a major Conservative Party donor manufactures bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and Muslim homes in India and ...
In the 990s, he led his armies over the Western Ghats, the range of hills that shelter India's west coast, and burned the ships ... the East India Company - a powerful British trading corporation ...