As he sailed down the Coromandel coast from Machilipatnam looking for a place to set up a factory and perhaps a future ...

Trade would make Britain great and turn London into the richest city in the world. Thanks to the East India Company ... their weight in gold. In Madras the company built a warehouse and several ...

In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India Company. This was a company ... an English merchant reached what is now the city of Chennai in southern India.

and Madras. They majorly traded in Silk, Indigo Dye, Cotton, Tea, and Opium. 20 years later, the Company spread its presence to the East of India by setting up a factory in Kolkata. During their ...