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…
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