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Lessons for capitalism from the East India Company

19 mins | Sep 7, 2019

How did a motley City gathering morph into history’s most rapacious corporation? William Dalrymple, writing in the Financial Times, recounts the story of the 'empire within an empire' - the East India Company - and explains why its story matters today.