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The 122 pages that link to East India Company, each with the reason it gives.

• First Anglo-Sikh WarRelated: Its expansion and military preparations brought it into confrontation with the Sikh state.

• Jacobean eraRelated: Its early voyages and trading activity continued through James’s reign.

• James MathesonRelated: Its China-trade monopoly shaped the commercial environment in which Matheson established an independent firm.

• MuslinRelated: Its trade and rule reshaped Bengal’s textile production and markets.

• ShawlRelated: Its trade helped bring Indian shawls into European markets.

• English overseas possessionsRelated: It began as a trading venture and became a major instrument of English expansion overseas.

• GurkhaRelated: It began recruiting Nepali soldiers after the Anglo-Nepalese War.

• Merchant shipRelated: Its fleets connected merchant shipping with chartered trade and imperial expansion.

• Thomas Love PeacockRelated: Peacock spent much of his working life in its London administration.

• GhalibRelated: Its expanding power displaced the Mughal political order that had supported Ghalib’s milieu.

• Great Bengal famine of 1770Related: Its revenue collection and trade policies shaped the famine’s effects.

• Henry Thomas ColebrookeRelated: Colebrooke served the company in India, where administrative work brought him into contact with Sanskrit law.

• KanpurRelated: Company military and administrative presence helped shape colonial Cawnpore.

• William KiddRelated: The company’s complaints about attacks on its ships helped bring Kidd to trial.

• Dean MahomedRelated: As a teenager, Mahomed served under an officer of the company.

• History of DhakaRelated: Its expansion shifted political power and trade away from Mughal-era Dhaka.

• HowquaRelated: The company was among the Western trading interests Howqua’s firm dealt with.

• Kanhoji AngreRelated: Its Bombay establishment repeatedly fought Angre over shipping and coastal authority.

• Kingdom of NagpurRelated: Its military and political expansion transformed Nagpur from a kingdom into a dependent state.

• Kittur ChennammaRelated: Its officials challenged Kittur’s succession and fought Chennamma’s forces.

• Western imperialism in AsiaRelated: Its trade monopoly and territorial rule show how a chartered company could become an imperial power.

• William DalrympleRelated: Its rise from trading company to ruling power is the subject of The Anarchy.