During 200 years East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in universe. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong political geography of today is, in some respects, result of Company. This book looks at history of East India Company.
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Keay et al. (1995) studied this question.