India is a beautiful country, and a perfect setting for the new style of AC games.
A Templar infested East India Company would make a fantastic opposing force. Going up against a corporatocracy just feels very "Assassin's Creed".
Just thinking about it makes me want to watch the Sharpe's Rifles movies where Sean Bean goes to India.
The 1st one is the most important: (even China follows it). Don't ask for the price however innocuous/justified you feel it is - the companies ignoring you are actually doing you a favor by not treating your request seriously.
The more nasty companies will ask their local representative to contact you - the whole purpose is to lure more and more people into the conversation.
If you dodge find 'excuses', they will send you junk email with invites to trade shows and greetings on Diwali and Independence day - the purpose is to drag you into the mire. They will keep the conversation flowing for years just so they can point back and show wasted time.
Spamming you is a form of communication - it indicates that they are displeased - send them some money and they'll take you off the list.
2nd point to note: businesses will bill you for their time and do everything to waste your time.
- Figure out the price of a product before-hand by studying the market (look for similar products and their pricing). Check all versions of the target product : quantity matters and affects price DRAMATICALLY. Never ASK for a price or payment details. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT (magically).
- Do all your company (employee, foreign tie-ups) research and productS research BEFORE you contact the company in question. Check naukri, zauba, foreign-websites, foreign retailers, GSTIN, Google maps - zoom out to look at the locality, neighbors.
- Prepare a list of questions/data you need to gather.
- Ask for an INFORMAL meeting/phone-call, NEVER ask for a direct price, go through your list of questions and ask the company-rep for more clarity: expect lies, lack of clear answers - should be factored into your list of Questions.
- You will only get 2 meetings/phone-calls over 2 days - expect them to sound really busy. You have to pay and close that quickly (in 2 days) ONCE YOU OPEN FORMAL negotiation. The pro-forma invoice will say 2 weeks to close - that's meaningless.
- Expect them to push their crap during these meetings. Expect them to 'helpfully' offer to send you a pro-forma Invoice/Offer letter <-- this is a trap to lock you into some crappy deal, tie you up to a particular destination/price. Never say 'yes' impulsively and accept a Pro-forma Invoice. It can even come disguised as industry slang - CI (commercial invoice) 'shall I send the CI'.
- Expect them to waste your time, ignore parts of your spec, lie/bend the truth. **Most bus
In the later years of East India Company rule in the Indian Subcontinent (prefably in the period between the First Sikh War and the Indian Rebellion but any is helpful) was India soley the destination of Company men and Soldiers (plus their families) amongst the British or did unconnected civilians travel there?
And as an additional question - did the EIC have monopoly over trade in India or did independant/other companies ever attempt to make a living there?
So colonial India spanned 1858 to 1947, and company rule India spanned the preceding 101 years:
> Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj.
#Brits visiting India#
This is what I know so far:
1875 - Prince Albert Edward visited on an eight month tour, after which Anglo-Indian relations strengthened and the King and Queen were named Emperor and Empress of India.
1889 - Prince Albert Victor visited for several months, ostensibly to escape from a scandal where he was caught engaging in homosexual acts with male prostitutes at brothels in London.
1905 - Prince George V and Princess Mary visited India on a five month tour:
> Starting on November 10th 1905, and continuing until March 19th 1906, the Prince & Princess conducted what amounts to a rolling State Visit in India and Burma. During this period they crisscrossed the Indian Subcontinent by train twice, sailing to Burma in-between. The first leg from Bombay to Calcutta, conducting Durbars and visiting the important Maharajahs to British interests along the way. The Royal Couple then sailed to Burma where they went from Rangoon to Mandalay by train, and returned by Irrawaddy Flotilla River Boat, then returning to India at Madras. Their Royal Highnesses then proceeded from Madras to Karachi by Royal Train, again conducting visits, giving speeches, unveilings, and being hosted by leaders, both British and Indian throughout their journey. It was a daunting schedule, even a month of which would have been impressive, but this was more then four months with only a couple of brief rest breaks, usually only accomplished when things were cancelled.
> Not only did this visit expose the future King and Queen to the Indian Empire, and its leaders, but it also created relationships between those leaders and their future Sovereign. Many of the personalities involved in the Visit, and the governing of India at this time, would play key roles during the first decade of King George V's reign, and would be the leaders of the British Government and Military during World War I. The future King would also make life long friendships with several Indian Maharajahs. The grandest of all of the 'Victorian' Tours, all others after it would pale by comparison.
1911
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"Says Macaulay, in his essay of Lord Clive: "Enormous fortunes were rapidly accumulated in Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah.... It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.... Sometimes they submitted in patient misery. Sometimes they fled from the white man, as their fathers had been used to fly from the Mahratta; and the palanquin of the English traveller was often carried through silent villages and towns through which the report of his approach has made desolate."
Nidhi Company is a company enlisted under the Companies Act, 2013, which has a sole target of developing the propensity for frugality and investment funds among its individuals. Nidhi organizations are permitted to take store from its individuals and loan to its individuals as it were. Along these lines, the assets contributed for a Nidhi Company are just from its individuals (investors) and utilized uniquely by the investors of the Nidhi Company.
Full Quote
"Says Macaulay, in his essay of Lord Clive: "Enormous fortunes were rapidly accumulated in Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah.... It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.... Sometimes they submitted in patient misery. Sometimes they fled from the white man, as their fathers had been used to fly from the Mahratta; and the palanquin of the English traveller was often carried through silent villages and towns through which the report of his approach has made desolate."
