... in India. Due to focused leadership and poor communications between the Company employees and the English Parliament the Company was able to do this. From humble beginnings the formation of the Company led to control of India for the Crown of England. The East India Company decided that it should make itself a base in India. It chose for this role the Indian state known as Bengal. The big British boom came to Bengal at the beginning of the eighteenth century; prior to this the British had made little contact apart from small item trading. 'In the first years of that decade the British sent annually around £150,000 to Bengal; in the last years the total was about £250,000'(1). The increasing trade with Bengal led to the amount of factories built by the Company there increasing. Despite all this trading there was still little profit for the people who were ...

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