but the key thing about the east india company was that after the mid-18th century the east india company came to rule over much of the south asian subcontinent which included most of the modern-day bangladesh, india and pakistan. the east india company was rolled up in 1858, following a great new the of 1857 and 1858, and control of the south east asian subcontinent. >> how did it gives its charter? >> its charter was granted to merchants are petitioned the elizabethan court for the exclusive right to trade. and it was actually one of a number of european trading companies, including the hudson-based company that was also charter by the english crown. but its main competitors were a french east india company which comes in the late 17th century, and more powerfully and importantly the dutch east india company which largely followed the same course of conquest and rule over the indian asian archipelago. >> now, when you say it ruled, what was its geographical area that ruled and how did it ruled? >> that's a very complex question. because the east india company being a kind of parasail or

but the key thing about the east india company is after the mid 18th century, the east india company came to rule over much of the south asian subcontinent which included most of modern day bangladesh, india and pakistan. the east india company was rolled up in 1858 following great mutiny of 1857 and 1858, and control of the south asean subcontinent passed to the british crown. >> how did it get its charter? >> its charter was granted to a group of merchants who had petitioned the e his beith than court for the exclusive right to trade, and it was actually one of the number of european trading companies including the hudsons bay company that was also chartered by the english crown, but its main competitors were the french east indian company and more powerfully and importantly, the dutch east indian company which largely followed the same course of con and rule, but over the indonesia archipelago. >> when you say it ruled, what was its geographical area that it ruled, and how did it rule? >> that's a very complex question because the east india company being a kind of parasital organi

it was called we the people what they were escaping from was the domination of the british east india company which ever said that it was you know it wasn't a government was actually a corporation which was basically running america jamestown was a corporate town virginia was owned by the east india company the very first settlement was these an indian company the team on the ships in the boston harbor that was thrown into the it was the east you know it was a river a she knew right along was a rule of or against a corporate job amish corporation handing out green projects to his pals and trying to use a better government to bundle money to to his his buddies it's called crony capitalism and he's using the federal government to do that and that's that's wrong i hope you would agree with that i find this whole notion of. and you know there's no winner or loser i think in this debate other than maybe american people and and and but when you're american people and i am an american person i'm talking about you have to say i am both sides will claim that i just i mean both let's talk about the rep

corporate revolt against the world's largest transnational corporation at the time of british east india company. they call a puckster is like thomas friedman it's out so-called free trade policies and sell off our factories and manufacturing jobs to the lowest bidders around the world well forgetting that our nation's first treasury secretary alexander hamilton george washington's treasury secretary laid out an eleven point plan literally called the american way that promoted protectionism and promoted american industries and not so-called free trade these guys give millionaires and billionaires the power to run amok in our politics claiming that corporations are people and as people we have the right to free speech and to dump as much money into our elections as they develop leads while forgetting that none of the founding fathers considered corporations important enough to even mention them in our nation's constitution and that the author of the declaration of independence and self thomas jefferson had a deep seated mistrust of too much corporate power and fought tirelessly to include freedom