The East India Company was sucked into this vacuum. It would back one local claimant to a throne against another. And in return for its support it would be given little land holdings or trading ...

By the 1760’s, the East India Company had grown from a tiny band of merchants with a small foothold in India - into a colossal trading empire, pouring wealth into the pockets of its share ...

The Courtauld Institute & Tate are inviting applications for an AHRC doctoral studentship studying Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857.