Discuss The Advent Of European Trading Companies In India.

[vidicchick]

Discuss the advent of European Trading Companies in India.

[factor-fiction]

I'll bring it into the conversation at work today.

[factor-fiction]

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[Baldric]

Gosh that is really interesting divebuddy!

[Baldric]

I'm really Goshed, honest guv!

[vulcan42]

Where I live we talk of nothing else.

[jourdain2]

Very glad to hear that vulcan - it's certainly the 'in' topic of conversation around here.

[jno]

there used to be a saying in the days of the British empire that "trade follows the flag". The growth of British involvement in India was actually the other way round: British traders got there first. (Though the East India Company, as its name suggests, was formed to trade with the East Indies, not India.)

[Mosaic]

Didn't Portuguese entrepreneurs andmissionaries 'get there first'?
Aside that is from the indigenous people who lnew about it all along.

[jno]

I just meant "got there before the flag".