The Birth of Empire

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Dan Snow looks at the rise and fall of the East India Company, in this version of the BBC Two series made specially for schools.

2014
How the East India Company became the rulers of British India - and how it all came undone
Dan Snow travels in the footsteps of the company that helped create the British Empire.
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