Company Quote by Robert Trout

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

— Robert Trout

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that…

— Steven Knight

“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love…

— Tom Standage

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within…

— Peter Blair Henry

“however, the round trip was a very long one (fourteen months was in fact well below the average). It was also hazardous: of twenty-two…

— Niall Ferguson

East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world -…

— Steven Knight

“In the late 1830s the Chinese government issued a ban on drug trafficking, but British drug merchants simply ignored the law. Chinese authorities began…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“India a country in southern Asia occupying the greater part of the Indian subcontinent; pop. 1,045,845,226 (est. 2002); official languages, Hindi and English (fourteen…

— Angus Stevenson

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted,…

— Steven Knight

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

— Auberon Waugh

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

— Jeet Thayil

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of…

— Robert Trout