The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. The company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s.
NEW YORK, NY, October 30, 2023 - AMC Networks announced today that it has licensed the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to Nautilus, a 10-episode live-action series inspired by Jules Verne's beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment. The series will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024. Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
A reimagining of 20.000 Lieues sous les mers (1954) which was initially set to be a remake with David Fincher set to direct and Brad Pitt set to star in it. It was in pre-production since 2010 but was continually pushed out. In 2013, Pitt announced that he would not be a part of the production.
The British Raj ('reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent lasting from 1858 to 1947.
From 1757, Britain increased its control of India through the East India Company.