This excerpt from our exclusive East India Company Series article titled Noble Motives focuses on the puzzle of the disappearance of the EICs and their reemergence as modern day MNCs (Multi National Corporations).
The East India Company (the "Company") was one of the institutions created as a product of the Venetian Merchants takeover of England’s commerce. In England it was called the British East India Company. The Levant Company, set up to trade with the East, had been formed in 1592 as a fu...