The Nabob, The Church, The School

How Diamonds from Golconda Bankrolled America’s Ivy League

The East India Company came to India in the fall of 1608, but they would not establish a rule on the subcontinent until decades later. The first factory they established was only in 1611, in Masulipatnam. Before all else, let’s understand the term “factory” here. Today it’s a place of industrial production, but in the pre-industrial era, it was more lik…