The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

Miniseries

2014 · 2 episodes · 2h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   30 Apr 2014 · 60 min

   Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the foundations for today's global trading systems.

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   2. Episode 2

   7 May 2014 · 60 min

   By 1800 the East India Company had grown from a tiny band of merchants into a colossal trading empire. But scandal and corruption in the 18th century had led to a curtailment of its powers by the British government.