As a lot of other countries were already helping themselves to Asia, the British East India Company were quite late to the game, but what they lacked in timing they more than made up for in ruthlessness and/or not really giving a shit about exploiting everybody (including slaves) to make money. They called themselves at times the ‘Honourable’ East India Company, which is a massive red flag. It’s like how North Korea calls themselves the Democratic Republic of North Korea, or if some guy late at night at a bus shelter introduces himself as ‘Not Even Remotely Stabby Ben’.
