1. The East India Company

Welcome to Empire, a brand new history podcast hosted by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.

The first series looks at the British in India: The East India Company, The Raj, Gandhi, Independence and Partition.

In the opening episode, William and Anita discuss the rise of The East India Company, exploring how a small corporation founded in Tudor England - with only a handful of employees - came to rule India.

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