TY - BOOK AU - Tirthankar Roy AU - Tirthankar Roy TI - The East India Company: : the world's most powerful corporation SN - 9780143426172 U1 - 382.094205 ROY PY - 2016/// CY - Gurgaon, Haryana, India PB - : Portfolio, Penguin KW - Commerce KW - East India Company KW - India -- Commerce -- History N2 - This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now ER -