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*[http://www.livemint.com/2012/04/05201057/Blame-the-British-Raj-on-banke.html "Blame the British Raj on bankers: One community played a significant role in helping the British take over the country’s administration"] by Aakar Patel 6 April 2012. livemint.com
*[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders "The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"] by William Dalrymple 4 March 2015 ''The Guardian''.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20191113112053/http://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-east-india-company-20190828-p52lhf "The rise and rise of the East India Company"] by William Dalrymple 5 September 2019 ''Financial Review'', archived link. An extract from ''The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company'' by William Dalrymple.
: Listen to [https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/william-dalrymple-on-the-east-india-company/ William Dalrymple on the East India Company] October 7, 2019 ''History Extra'' Podcast from BBC. How a single London corporation took over the Mughal empire and became a major imperial power.
:Listen to [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/william-dalrymple-british-east-india/11648048 William Dalrymple on the ruthless rise of the British East India Company] Part of the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Commission] radio series ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' , broadcast 4 November 2019.
*[http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160330-the-worlds-most-powerful-corporation "The world’s most powerful corporation"] by Amanda Ruggeri 30 March 2016 bbc.com.
*[http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/files/2013/01/EIC-Bibliography-Final-21.08.14.pdf East India Company Bibliography] “The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 – UCL History” ucl.ac.uk
*''The English Factories in India: A Calendar of Documents in the India Office, British Museum and Public Records Office'' by William Foster Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories01fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1618-1621] 1906 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactorie00fostgoog 1622-1623] 1908 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories03fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1624-1629] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories04fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1630-1633] 1910 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories05fostuoft#page/n5/mode/2up 1634-1636] 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories06fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1637-41] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories07fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1642-45] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories08fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1646-1650] 1914 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories09fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1651-1654] 1915 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories10fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1655-1660] 1921 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories11fost#page/n7/mode/2up 1661-1664] 1923'''.''' Volume 12 1665-1667, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206632 Archive.org mirror version DLI] 1925 and Volume 13 1668-1669, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206636 Archive.org version DLI] although the author is incorrectly catalogued.
:''The English Factories in India'' ... New series by Sir Charles Fawcett. ''vol. 1. The Western Presidency, 1670-1677''. 1936. ''vol. 2. The Eastern Coast and Bengal, 1670-1677''. 1952. ''vol. 3. Bombay, Surat and Malabar Coast 1678-1684''. 1954. ''vol. 4. The Eastern Coast and Bay of Bengal 1678-1684''. 1955. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84022 Vol I Archive.org version, DLI]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285593/page/n3 Vol III Archive.org version, DLI]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.135647 Vol IV Archive.org version, DLI]. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000870347 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access, the latter catalogue entry says: In this "new set of volumes...the contents of the records are to be digested into a readable account of the main events in each year."
*''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series'' edited by W Noel Sainsbury. Archive.org and HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/colonialrecordsc02greauoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 East Indies, China and Japan 1513-1616''] 1862; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483915?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume 3 East Indies, China and Japan 1617-1621''] 1870, [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.00256 Archive.org version]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483949?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume 4 East Indies, China and Japan 1622-1624''] 1878, [https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep04grea/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc06greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 6 East Indies, China and Persia 1625-1629''] 1884; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc08greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 8 East Indies and Persia 1630-1634''] 1892. [v. 1, 5, 7, 9- America and West Indies].
*''A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company'' by Ethel Bruce Sainsbury Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm01sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1635-1639''] 1907 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''1640-1643''] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1644-1649''] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1650-1654''] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm05sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1655-1659'' ] 1916 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16601663sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1660-1663''] 1922
*''Ledger and Sword; or, The Honourable Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies (1599-1874)'' by Beckles Wilson 1903 [https://archive.org/details/ledgerswordorhon01willuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ledgerandswordo01willgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiatradein00khanuoft ''The East India Trade in the XVIIth century, in its Political and Economic Aspects''] by Shafaat Ahmad Khan 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275926/page/n1/mode/2up ''The East India House: Its History and Associations''] by William Forster 1924. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8935/page/n3/mode/2up ''John Company''] by William Foster 1926. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1834'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926. Five Volumes. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80805 Vol. I, Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73362 Vol. III, Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533212 Vol. IV, Archive.org], originally from Digital Library of India. All volumes are also available as pdf downloads from GIPE Digital Books-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune. Volumes [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23767 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23769 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23770 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23771 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23772 5]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust Digital Library. All volumes are also available online from the The University of British Colombia, including [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373598#p0z-10000r0f: Volume II] and [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373622#p0z-7r0f: Volume V], but note these may be slow to load, however downloads are available.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503211 ''Commerce And Conquest: The Story Of The Honourable East India Company''] by Claude Lestook Reid, first published 1947. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule in India''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962 . Archive.org Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/johncompanyatwor0000furb/page/n9 ''John Company at Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late eighteenth century''] by Holden Furber. 1970 reprint of 1948 original edition. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes the English, [[French]], [[Dutch]], and [[Danish]] East India Companies.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57461/page/n5 ''The Rise And Fall Of The East India Company''] by Ramkrishna Mukherjee 1955. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
