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Loot: in search of the East India Company, the world’s first transnational corporation

Henderson Global Investors in the City of London, nick.robins{at}henderson.com

This article charts the growth of the world’s first transnational corporation, the East India Company, and the resonance this has for today’s globalization agenda. Starting as a speculative company to import spices, the East India grew to rule onefifth of the world’s population. The paper also discusses the implications, for India and Britain, of its profit-driven development achieved through trade, taxes and conquest. It also describes how the Company’s wealth allowed it to manipulate and even bring down governments.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 14, No. 1, 79-88 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/095624780201400107


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