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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William

Dal Rumpel. So this is this is so very much your territory

William and I'm absolutely just absorbed by these amazing stories.

We left the last podcast with East India Company at the very height of its powers.

These are the glory days of this corporation that has become a country eater if you like.

1799 that's about the period but then things start to change after the impeachment of

Warren Hastings which we talked about in the last podcast something happens in

Britain where they start allowing other companies in so they start just slicing

bits off East India company interest and allowing others.

Why do they do that?

So it's a very interesting story and you've got to look at this today from the point of view of, you know, the great corporations of our time.

We live with companies like Tesla and Facebook and ExxonMobil, these Walmart, these vast multinational companies, Amazon.

And in some ways they are more powerful the states.

A big company like Amazon or Walmart has a turnover greater than most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

A company like Amazon has a turnover greater than most countries in Europe. Only America can have a greater wealth

than it. And what you see with the company is that for much of its career, while it's most famous for bringing

down governments in India and bringing down first Sir Rajatollah, then Tuberts

and so on, at the same time it's also in a sense challenging the British date.

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