Download or read book The Honourable Company written by John Keay and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1993 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 200 years the East India Company grew from an association of Elizabethan tradesmen into a powerful organization. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an empire. This book looks at the history of the Company.