Bring A History Of The Presidency Form The First Foundation Of Fort St. George To The Occupation Of Madras By The French (1639-1748).

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The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.

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