{"title":"A Legal Analysis of the British East India Company","authors":"B. Sahni","doi":"10.1556/AJUR.54.2013.4.2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the corporate conduct of the British East India Company (1600–1874). The EIC was a state corporation that required the participation of private actors in England and British colonies. In India the EIC established a fi rm presence for the British Empire. British rule was profi table for the Crown but had pros and cons for the people of India. This article asks: Is a state corporation accountable for unethical and illegal profi t making in another country? Or can it be excused on the grounds that a company is a mere artifi cial personality and incapable of human behavior?","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJUR.54.2013.4.2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article examines the corporate conduct of the British East India Company (1600–1874). The EIC was a state corporation that required the participation of private actors in England and British colonies. In India the EIC established a fi rm presence for the British Empire. British rule was profi table for the Crown but had pros and cons for the people of India. This article asks: Is a state corporation accountable for unethical and illegal profi t making in another country? Or can it be excused on the grounds that a company is a mere artifi cial personality and incapable of human behavior?