How A Corporation Conquered A Sub-Continent
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India is home to one of the oldest civilizations, spanning back millennia. And in a period of a few centuries the entire sub-continent was acquired by a private business that used it for profit. Story time.
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So doing video's a bit different. Instead of doing, an alternate history video with half history, then alternate. I decided to do two full videos about the same topic. One history. One alternate history. That way I can full flesh out both parts, without sacrificing for the sake of time.
While right now this is just the history. The next video "What if Britain Never Took Over India?", will be a lot more fleshed out of a scenario. And will come out far sooner, since I have already done the research, made assets, etc.
This has to be a good vid, if not I’m unsubbing
(first)
Wow like this format
AlternateHistoryHub like the United Arabia videos
cool
Something tells me this is going to be a new pattern. United Middle East, Afghanistan, and now this.
When people say the Trade Federation from Star Wars is unrealistic because no company would ever use military force for commercial gain.
*Laughs in East India Company*
(either British or Dutch)
Eh, I was thinking they were more like Weyland-Yutani, what with them funding, building and wholly owning colonies
*Laughs in Pepsi fleet*
What dummies.
Literally who says that?
@@negativezero8174 some guys at the Templin Institute i think
Pope gives Portugal half the world
Protestants: "it's free real estate".
Dutch: I see money and capitalism.
Anyone here know how I can contact Cody so he can do a video on my alternate history question
gimme da lut
@Gods Bloody Hammer press X to doubt
It was more complicated but the sequence should be familiar to any EU3/4 player. Portugal used their king as general before a heir appeared. Then they lost him and the dinastic marriage with Spain activated and forced them into a PU. Then Spain demanded annexation and Portugal revolted putting a low legitimacy leader. They won the war but through the whole 86 year ordeal they were too distracted from proper imperial defence
Cody: posting normal history content
Tyler: having an acid trip over on “knowledge”hub
Tyler has ascended
Facts
What's wrong with him?
Also were the two the same?
@@nexusanphans3813 Knowledge hub used to belong to the same guy on this channel but he gave it to his Brother Tyler I believe
@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz I thought Tyler always made the scripts and stuff on that channel, and
Cody was just the voice?
Cody: 'But the drive to split Africa was mostly just to fill a map'.
Me, a Victoria 2 player: 'Yep, that sounds about right'.
i presume they lost all their holdings when they got to the San Fierro part of the story
"Though as our story opens, he no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company." -Douglas Adams
That's a very nice quote
@@heathenfire Yes. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a great book/radio series
@@tjs2014 From my experience on the internet, it seems HGttG is made of nothing but banger quotes.
"CyberPunk is so unrealistic, there's no way a company can take over and run a entire country"
Me:
That was before Trump 0_0
Um....look at the US now? The corporations taken over the US.
@@itsblitz4437 Gladly capitalism can negate oligarchic overlords if they aren't completely separated from market realism like in Russia. American economical decline become visible issue nowadays.
well, they didnt. for many of their conquestzs they relied on the british navy and army to help them fighting. and i would say they were able to run an entire country. evidence suggests otherwise.
@@maltesimusfraterdemassimo7215 What many pseudo-capitalists don't understand, or worst. Does, but pretend to be dumb. Is that corporations are extremely good in maximizing profits, but healthy economy demand competition and without it corporations become inefficient (what we for example see in oligarchic Russia, where government control market through Licensed monopolies). Monopoly is most anti-capitalistic practice in existence and healthy economy demand regulations from wise government to keep it that way. At the same time corporations with they predatory practices, actually proved to be absolute failures outside sheltered markets. Real politic is based on balance of power, basically keeping everyone happy though systematic regulations (it is also why despite its flaws democracy work so well). When corporations with they mentality basically are guaranteed to piss everyone. It is why business-politic relations are not only toxic, but in many countries downright illegal. United States become so used to be always the correct one, that politicians literally start ignoring when they aren't. And nowadays it is almost obvious that wild capitalism and corporationism are failed systems.
"Apple is the first Trillion Dollar Company"
East India Company: *am i a joke to you?*
GazB adjusted for today's values.....
@GazB there is a difference between value and earnings.
Vinito Rahmat nice pfp😄
Do you even East India, bro?
@GazB Dumb
1720: "Our company has it's own military" - East India Company
2020: "Our company IS IT'S OWN MILITARY" - modern PMCs
Well, modern PMCs are basically security details.
East India Company is more of a polity who had local governments--aka Rajas--helping with administration (sometimes even the company officers adopted local customs like polygamy and marrying into Indian families).
by 1720 the ..military'' force of the EIC just involved a few garrisons, you know protecting the factories and suchg. they were far from having a real army at that point.
@@powerist209 not quite. at first the eic was just an ally supporting local rulers but with time they stripped many indian rulers of their rights and privileges. either an indian ruler became a powerless puppet or was annexed entirely.
The EIC eventually controlled more soldiers than the entire British standing army.
The EIC was maximum cyberpunk.
@@nathaniellindner313 Not at all points. The EIC began heavily recruiting from 1760 onwards. if my memory serves right, by 1805 they had around 120k troops, mostly sepoys ofc. The did not quite match the british army in numbers, i think they 'only' surpassed them around the time of waterloo 1815 and after that. Id have to check the numbers again if youre interested.
But its not like they alsways had this giant corporate army up their sleeve.
2:04
"And especially the tea"
Gee, I wonder which European nation wanted as much of that commodity as they could get...
I'm convinced Britain could've landed on the moon had someone convinced them the best tea ever imagined grows there.
I don’t think they’d make tea, instead they’d make...
Moonshine
@@alexsiemers7898 It's made of cheese, and there was a "grand (or great?) day out" to get said cheese
Tea on the moon u say? *begins building rocket*
I mean I would
They could conquer the universe if you told them it was made of coffee beans and sugar
“It’s nothing personal, Jack. It’s just good business.”
~Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Lord Cutler Beckett, from *East* India Company. And he lives in Port Royal, Jamaika
Well we are East of India, just the long way round
@@ra_alf9467 The East India Company did expand to the Caribbean, though I'm fuzzy on the timeline
@@TheLagiacrus1 Ikr. When I watch the movie, I'm always thinking, the protagonist is a Caribbean pirate, the main setting is on Caribbean sea, but the enemy is EAST INDIA COMPANY
Genius line.
"The reason the sun never set on the British Empire is because even God doesn't trust the British in the dark"
Bravo six, going dark
-Random very cool bearded SAS captain
Rofl, good one.
Shashi Tharoor : This mutiny for the sole aversion to one's right to copyright of its intellectual ability is just applaulingly stoop on the spectrum of respect of formal codes .
Normal person : This was said by shashi he might have had the copyright for that line
@@ketanrajani948 wut?
Damnnn. Savage
“Even better tea”
Me a British person watching this with a tea in his hand
Approve
Modern corporations:
Write that down! Write that down!
*n O*
They already did. What the hell do you think modern globalism is?
Economic expansion
Bringing freedom and democracy to a cheap labor market with valuable natural resources near you...
le epic meymey xDDDDDDDDD
“It’s just.. Good business”
James Tilsley proceeds to get fucking destroyed by two magic ships
Wake up Grenadier, we got a City to burn
“I was just a businessman, doing business.”
"He who controls the spice, controls the universe"
spice must flow
ThE waTerS oF Life
Same dune flash backs
Quote by… done Dutchman
"Or even better, control the spice"
The Dutch: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
No.
Z E G M A K K E R
KOKOSNOTEN ZIJN GEEN SPECERIJEN
W A A R L I J K K O R N U I T
J A Z E K E R
*A video about a corporation who ruled India*
India: whew, good thing it's only "Alternate History", wait...
epic dude
It's cool, Ghandi will tooooooootally not show up only to kneecap a genuine independence movement and make a new deal with the empire that was still devastating for all of India.
@@jayvis123111 Are you Indian? Your knowledge of Gandhi's idiocy and adamance makes me believe so but your spelling of Gandhi makes me believe otherwise.
@@theindianagenda5819 FFFFFFF I'm illiterate, no I'm Canadian I just have an interest in decolonization and Gandhi* is well known and well regarded.
@@jayvis123111 wow I'm amazed people are aware of Gandhi's misadventures instead of portraying him as a God
Cody: [mentions the VOC]
Me: G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Ich bin whilem
@@tomassanz2003 That's german
Z E G M A K K E R
Pretty much one of the first companies in the world to get filthy rich and to design their first logo
Gekoloniseerd
Tea Producing Country: *exists*
British: "Top of the morning sir, might I have a look at that land of yours?"
DID YA BUY THAT FROM TESCO MATE? AND DON'T FORGET THE FAUCKING BISCUITS!!!
no british person in the history of the world has ever said g'day mate unless they were taking the piss out of australians
Bethany Nightingale he changed it to an Irish saying instead lol
Ovaloctopus8 hahahahahaha gold
So close, Josh
@@ovaloctopus8 ikr, just say good day sir, or, more accurately; alright mate?
*Watched Pirates of the Caribean 2 & 3
Me: You know, I'm something of a historian myself.
Preparing my underground bunker for when history repeats and Disney tries to overthrow the government
Yo what the fuck
-Walt Disney from his grave (20XX)
Lmfaoooo
SomethingStupid Gyu huh! -Adolf Disney after capturing Washington D.C
The rich(elites)(not every rich person) are taking over, small business will die out since this will last a year at least, for 2 clases rich and poor
@@aeternavictrix7861 that depend a lot of us.
If we let them,they will do what they want.
"The Leviathan of the Seas, is it? The terrible shadow? The Beast with a million eyes and a million ears? Conquest, rape, plunder? I studied your methods in your school, and I do know the evil that you do because I was once part of it."
-James Keziah Delaney, describing the East Indian Trading Company
7:27 Feels weird to hear Afghanistan invading somebody else.
Mughals were from Afghanistan descendents of Genghis Khan.
@@donalddude7568 No, the Mughals weren't Afghan, they came from Uzbekistan
@@BrotherHao1 Babur ruled over Afghanistan, before he found the Mugal Empire. He was from Timurids, who considered themselfs as Turkish Mongols. I dunno how pronounce correctly that name in English. So I call them Turkish Mongols.
@@donalddude7568 they were Timurids, not Ghengizids
Here before all the The Walt Disney Company comments.
Or Banana republic.
I was thinking Coca Cola.
Dole: Greetings from Hawaii!!!
Apple has enough cash laying around to buy Disney outright
@@samin90 Yup. All those "Disney owns everything" idiots has no idea that it isn't even largest media company, not to mention company overall 0_0
Cody Cody CODY
steam is releasing remakes of red alert just wanna tell you
nice video tho as well
Command and Conquer actually.
Whar
What
Christian Neihart Command and Cody
6:31 🎶They had conquered all of india🎶
🎶*most of india🎶
(What about that part?)
That's the Tamil Kings, nobody conquers the Tamil Kings
(Who were the tamil kings?)
🎵Merchants probably🎵
It’s actually “time to conquer all of Indiaaaa- er most of Indiaaa” but love the quote XD
The google technocracy has thanked you for instructing them on the next step of their master plan cody
Future Executive President of the United States of Amazon Jeff Bezos also thanks Cody for the inspiration
The Banana Republics and the Hudson Bay Company are also extreme examples of corporations being some of the best colonizers.
Damn..
You're kinda right😂😅
Banana republics were colonialism..
Damn india, you really got taken over by the CEOs.
CEOwned
USA is next
DEUS EX MACHINA next? I thought it already happened.
@@johanliebert6734 we are already owned by the CEOs
eee err
The ceo of racism
15:30 truly the spirit of a paradox player
I recently finished that amazon miniseries Chernobyl, and really recommend it. Gorbachev said later that it was one of the reasons behind the Soviet Union’s decline, not to mention all the other effects it would have.
The design of the reactor made it so eventually an accident like that was inevitable, but can you make a video about if Chernobyl never happened?
Honestly I don’t think it would have changed much. The Soviet Union would still have collapsed and large portions of the American public would still be wary of nuclear as an energy source because of three mile island
Britain: *_hippity hoppoty your sub continent is now my property_*
Overused joke but ok .
India: What? This is outrageous. It’s unfair! How can you take control of my land and not be a country?!
"But when that goes unregulated, that's when a company doesn't simply remain a company, it becomes a state within a state"
Libertarians and ancaps: REEEEE
"Those aren't taxes, they are subscription fees! Totally different."
José Manuel Blanco Goldar “Taxation is theft, don’t ask how I’ll pay for the military”
Ancaps yes, but not as many libertarians as you’d think. Despite what you hear online most of us would not want a corporation having that much, or really any power.
TPrice919 Some libertarians believe in regulations to prevent monopolies so the free market, you know. Stays free. It’s called the free market. Not the corporate market (corporatism)
Taking in account that the companies were created by governmental orders and (in the British case) were supported by the national navy, these companies were NOT free market capitalist players.
VOC appeared in this video.
Me and every Indonesian that ever existed: *AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH*
K O M P E N I
DUTCHMAN
Wkwk anjir tiba2 ngamuk
Bro I have a question.......................didnt ur country have a name before they came?
I know u ppl called urself Nusantra and what happened after that? Dutch called you Indies and confused with India.
@@prashr4075 There is never a unification before Indonesia, so there is no really a way to call ourverselves something. We are just a bunch of different tribes with different cultures that decided to make a country after hundreds of years colonised. The closest that can be called to have unite Indonesia before is a kingdom called Majapahit. "Nusantara" can be translated as "many islands", is just a term that is used by a famous prime minister from Majapahit to refer the islands around Indonesia.
Confused and quite upset that the Sikh Empire wasn't mentioned atleast once in this video. Apart from that, a great vid and thank you for focusing on the once great and free nation of India.
HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT?! Where's the Sikh Wars? Where's The One Eye's Ranjit Singh?!
Incidentally, he glossed over the military make-up of the armies too!
Also, hiya there!
Jai Jagannatha, he has finally done it, he has finally covered India
🙌
ew
Jai jagganath 💓
Yess
@@oliver-wb4np ?
Woah, woah, is he talking about actual *history* this time?!
He talks a lot about history. In his alternate history videos he talks a lot about our history, to explain what would change, and why.
He’s gonna do a follow up video on “What if the British never conquered India?” He just wanted to flesh out the history stuff here. Kinda the same thing he did on “What if Arabia was united” where he had a preceding video dedicated to the context.
At one point the East India's company was larger than England's own army. (about 70,000 vs 30,000).
Ancaps be like: I was born in the wrong generation
To be FAIR, most Ancaps I know despise corps.
@@matthewchapman6305 what if they're exactly the same but we call them free associative investment ventures
@@smitty1647 LOL well then I guess it depend on how gullible the person is. “It’s not murder! It’s just putting a person to permanent sleep!” XD
Alternate history hub: Deep insight on the most important colony of the British Empire and the dangers of unregulated capitalism.
Knowledge hub: I lost my Apple TV remote so I’m gonna rant about Apple using psychedelic imagery.
Seriously, Knowledge Hub has gone so far down the shutter that Alternate History Hub has to bring in the knowledge.
@@Ryan.2 amen
The D O W N W A R D S P I R A L is a real thing
That’s what happens when a government keeps bailing out and subsidizing companies. Unregulated capitalism is wonderful to destroy monopolies due to over saturation of competition (movie streaming services including pirating websites are one of the best examples ever) but if the government mentality keeps at too big to fail...well, than this shit happens
This was mercantilism not capitalism.
lol I thought he was gonna talk about The American Banana company
I thought he was gonna talk about the Hudson's Bay Company
@@jstn5471
They ruled most of Northern Canada and some slivers of U.S land but it only had maybe 6,000 people and they weren't brutal
@@jstn5471
I remember seeing a Hudson Bay Company shop lol
Yeh at first I thought its gonna be about the UFC
But apparently its better
Really good video. Seems rather comprehensive for the topic matter. I took a class in the development of corporations and this was a big part of it. I’m happy you didn’t play polemics or focus on one part more than another. It’s a rather complex integrated system and I am happy how you conveyed how these old companies work. It’s a little odd coming from the modern perspective, but you explained the interesting mix of state backed, but publicly funded, and privately owned well.
I would also recommend Reading the company charters as well as some Aristotelian and guild papers (maybe leviathan too) to understand the intellectual grounding in the “corpore” or corporate body.
Great video as always! Keep up the good work.
0:55 I saw that battle brother, the emperor protects!
Don't think I didn't notice you sneaking in a picture of the Ultramarines in parade formation, Cody. Sneaky
Judging from the Subject Matter, I was hoping to see some Blood Ravens
"The spice must FLOW!"
Say, "cot."
Cody: Cot.
Say, "ton"
Cody: Ton.
Now say "cotton."
Cody: Coddon.
Just messing with you Cody. Thanks for the video and stay safe.
"Stay safe"
This is a British declaration of war if I've ever seen one
@@whenyournameisduoduos1282 it's like the Japanese /r/, a tap not a /d/.
Those last sentences were gold. Way too many people underestimate/or simply don't understand the power companies can have.
How about we all binge watch Cody while we’re in lockdown?
I'm down. I've got nothing better to do.
Let's do it
Sure let’s do it
Not in official lockdown here but just choose not to leave my house. Does that count.
@@tjs2014 yeah it counts lol
I would love to see some alternative history about the East India company
Part 2 to this (sort of)
Or if the Mughal empire never fell
If the East India Company Had Robocops and Intercontinental Drones
That's what Cody said in the top comment.
Game Hero What I mean is like, what if the East India company was never disbanded or what if the East India company never existed
These are some of the best videos on youtube. Educational, entertaining, etc. Good stuff
A new Alternate History video always makes me happy!
It's kinda amazing when you look at the fact that a small island took over 1/4th of the entire world in only 300 years.
The Mongols did it faster but the British didn't even have the large amount of man power to do it.
English is one of the most spoken languages and thanks to the British it has left it's Mark in history.
Mongols did not have a lot of manpower either
They also had Ireland with a bigger population then England at the time till the late 18th-19th century
Well they also lost all that land in the span of about 20 years
alright lads. the EIC had quite a lot of manpower actually. in 1858 they had over 350k men in their army. in many years throughout the 19th century their army was bigger than the british army.
no the british did not just fire one shot and go into melee. thatd be suicide against cavalry. the weaponry and firepower gave the the advantage over the indians, who primarily used cavalry en masse.
@pokezee king-wolf i am taking about the 1700s when the uk conquered most of it's territory, also the uk had a small army so of course they could not face napoleon that had the largest army in the world at the time. you are talking about the later period we referring to machine guns also, that was when when the british practically conquered everything and invented the modern world that you dwell in today. i am talking about red coat days when british men made all of Asia bow with noting but a one shot musket. always outgunned outnumber in most conflicts too but manage to kill more.
my point still stands about the mongols too, shoot at a distance and run away when too close on a fast horse as well, that is how they won all battles. effective but cowardly. British shoot and run towards and all the racism and lies will not change that. also other Europeans were also harder then the monglos in their prime. no Mongolian would of fought like how the Russians and French did in the Napoleonic wars, the eastern front was savage and on the scale of modern warfare, not weak medieval war fare where only a few hundred died and war over like most mongol wars, no more like hardcore British and German ww1 levels of death where thousands of real men charging into machine guns and dying daily. where mustard gas barbed wire and dead bodies fill the battle filed. it makes mongols shooting arrows at a distance on ponies look like massive pussies especially for how famous they were for all the raping and killing after victory. European especially British were flogged to death for rape it rarely happened.
>When Alternate History takes Knowledge Hub's job
Cookiesurvival KnowledgeHub has become...strange for lack of a better word.
@@TheQuadLaunchers sh*tpost
@@TheQuadLaunchers I know, its hilarious how its slowly spiraling into tyler's insanity. xd
@@TheQuadLaunchers I don't even bother watching Knowledge hub anymore because of all the weird crap.
Honestly, I love that you are splitting the real history and alternate history into two separate videos.
Excellent work as always, Cody. I look forward to the 'alternate history' version.
Last time I was this early I was in my home all the time by choice
Marathas: We have kicked the imperialistic Mughals out! Finally we, the natives of this nation can rule ourselv-
Europeans: *knock knock*
Why can't India just get a break?
@@alex-sv8ru ew no
@@alex-sv8ru Because Indians are governmentally challenged.
funny enough, the eic even helped the marathas at some point - prior to the anglo-maratha wars.
@@maltesimusfraterdemassimo7215 ?
This is why origionally subscribed to Knowledge Hub--the next time you make a video like this, upload it there!
This is actually the best video on this subject on TH-cam. Congratulations
I was actually just thinking the other day about how I want to learn more about this period. Great work as always Cody.
(India exists)
Britain: *_hippity hoppoty your land is now my property_*
@PP-chan the innocent anime girl I know about history but tbh I'd just make a joke.
Or say something informative.
Gandhi: Well yes, but actually no.
I'm from western North Carolina, and there is a really cool unit from the civil war called the Thomas Legion that is semi known around here to historians. They need more recognition and it is a very interesting group to do research on, from their commander to their troops and politics. Maybe you could include them in a potential video about crazy or unique military groups through history.
Wow that was a really good video, you really out did yourself here Cody!
Could we see a more in-depth Alt-history of _”What If The Sahara Desert Was Green?”_ I find that subject extremely interesting.
What if civilizations popped up as early as Alexander? Or as large as Rome?
He already did something like that
cette chaine est clôturé. No I want him to go more in-depth into the scenario. All Cody really said was “It would be a mixed region with lots of people.” I wanna see something like his _World Without Rome_ Series.
Same
I wonder if something like this'll ever happen again, when we really get into space
Only if there are aliens to colonize
Space Tea or bust
bet if you told the British the moon was a great place to grow tea, they'd be there in no time.
Like in Avatar
Considering that most governments have fell under paternalistic state capitalism,and those who didn't aren't big enough to go into space,i doubt it a lot
A very insightful and well-researched video! I even got some of my own misconceptions cleared!
I really enjoyed this video, I also really enjoyed your Audible add!
For a moment I thought I read "How *Corona* conquered a sub continent "
its on its way
That was one of the greatest sponsorship integrations I've seen
ya know your channel is called alternate history hub, but your videos simply about history are fascinating and awesome
This came at the right moment... currently learning about British India. It's been quite a while AlternateHistoryHub!
5:41
EconomicsExplain:"Oh,I don't think so."
yeah, seems like there's lots of interest in the VOC now than before
So that's what Lenin meant by Imperialism being the final stage of capitalism.
He was reffering to these Company bois.
What else would you have seen imperialism at the time being? The only empire that Europe had in the sense that it was called an empire and given the prestige of one was ousted about a hundred years before at the end of the Holy Roman Empire. China was defeated by unequal treaties, conquest, and civil wars, and was at the time the only other place a European would usually have seen as an state that could hold the title of an empire.
Those empires were gone. The ancient ones given legacies of millenia, out. Business drove new empires and while empires have always involved trade, they scale of business with these stock corporations was massively different.
+Logoncal if he did actually mean that, he was just wrong. The industrial revolution was the very beginning of capitalism, and imperialism was just Europeans leveraging their superior intellect to make guns, warships and artillery with intention of conquering barbarian savages in other parts of the globe. There's nothing capitalist about a taxpayer-funded monopoly backed by the most powerful monarchy on the planet and its armed forces...
@@voltagedrop5899 Adolf, you're wrong on so many levels.
@@newellboy2 nice try mr. "anyone right of stalin is literally Hitler", but you'll have to do better than that. My political position is displayed on my profile picture, and my point that your braindead commie idols skipped one too many basic economics classes still stands.
@@voltagedrop5899 the political chart is just wrong on so many levels that it honestly isn't worth using it
That was awesome. I learned so much.
Amazing video as always but the real peak of it is the Art Deco font, amazing
i have no idea how you didnt include the Battle of Plassey, the battle which led to the 200 year British rule. Only One man was responsible. Mir Jafar
Why is everyone talking about the Dutch East India company all of a sudden?
Beacause they were richer then apple
Hey Cody you should make a patreon! I love your content (I used to watch your channel when I was younger years ago and then thankfully came back and watched every video :D) and it would be great to support you directly. Instead of being at the mercy of YT, you'd be able to have a buffer against demonetization. Some extra content with that patreon would be cool and being able to get to know you better would be even cooler. Keep making this amazing content that we all love her on AltHisHub
This channel is amazing
Wanted this for sooooo long !!
A video of yours based on Indian Subcontinent. I'm From Bengal, more accurately the modern day Bangladesh.
Not saying good or bad but Bengal before appearance of foreigners was one of the wealthiest regions in the world (Bengal Subah). But it was sucked dry over and over throughout the history because of it's potential.
Even Today this hasn't changed. Not just for Bengal but the entire Indian Subcontinent. The Blessing of Fertile land and plentiful labor became a curse instead of blessing as it attracted foreign powers from everywhere of the world and which in turn made people selfish and blind to the greater good.
You realize that land doesnt recover because india is oligharcic right? They barely care about the people
Which is why alot of india didnt even have toilets.
And millions die of diarrhea everyday due to lack of clean water
Despite the big GDP the country neglects the people.
@@ironicmysoginist2035 dude you're living in 2008 98% population have toilet's and sanitation now . I mean you are not wrong but a decade late.
@@shivanshna7618 I do know Indians have toilets now but as I know (please verify if I'm right or wrong) some people still prefer open field over toilets.
And India is an Oligarchic place. That stagnated some of the development. This is different compared to other members of the subcontinent.
Bangladesh does not have that oligarchy but it has been crippled by corruption for the last 40 years. Whatever growth you see is made by people, it has been held back by whoever in charge of the governmemt.
On the other hand, Pakistan stagnated for their Radicalism. if they returned in the path of Jinnah and kept ideals of Liberal Islamic Nationalism after 70's, they could've been kept up with the world.
As they said the sun never set on the British empire because the sun was always shining in some part of the empire.
At its height the the British empire controlled the land area of 94% of the moon that is facing us.
Spanish/Habsburg empire*. The brits stolen that.
"The sun never sets on the British empire because God can't trust the English in the dark."-Shashi Tharoor I think
Edit: changed British to English, Scots and Welsh don't deserve this, they didn't commit genocide
@@samuellubell4557 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_empire_on_which_the_sun_never_sets
The spanish were still the first but yes the brits were also an empire on which the sun never sets.
@@samuellubell4557 Haha he has some good zingers. I freaking love Shasi, I will get around to reading his book one day
Apparently Shashi Tharoor was born in Britain and yet his books are still filled with Indian nationalist propaganda.🤦♂️
I’ve read William Dalrymple’s book, and I thoroughly recommend it!
The best video yet!
You should make sequel called "How A corporation conquered a content " about Banana Republics. Their are little to know videos about this aspect of American history not even a crash course, and I would like to know more about them
Why am I thinking of Weyland-Yutani all of a sudden?
Ah the perfect birthday gift for me a Alternatehistoryhub video
I love the Quartet soundtrack you chose
Our prayers have finally been answered with a video.
I'm from India and all this is in my history syllabus.
Well informed and fascinating take on the East India company!
I always talk trash about Cody on Knowledge Hub, but this channel is really amazing and I secretly need it...
anything with tea: exists
Britbong: whats yours is mine and whats mine is mine as well
"Its just.....good business"
I thought this was gonna be the Hudson's bay company
The HBC's territory was big but fairly empty and only was a part of today's Canada.
Saibot Saibot I don't disagree, but I'm pretty sure it was bigger then the East India Company.
There was also la compagnie des 100 associé and they were supposed to develop and exploit New France. It didn’t go well
@@phasmas1803 well certainly not as powerful, rich or armed as the EIC. the major creditors of the crown were the eic, bank of england and the south sea company iirc.
This is a nice change, I like how he teaches this stuff.
Top tier animation quality
they had me at "sub-continent"
I thought this was gonna be about a modern corporation lol
There will be Changes
He thought this was gonna be about a modern corporation, he didn’t say modern history.
Also he clearly meant contemporary.
NPC #1776 banana republics
NPC #1776 kek
There will be Changes
I mean technically implies that you’re correcting or amending something they said & nothing really needed to be corrected or amended.
Dood. I L O V E D THIS!!! :D
This is a FANTASTIC format to use for alt hist videos that require a lot more historical context! :D
Whoever controls the spice, controls the universe.