From 1757 to 1858, India was ruled by the (British) East India Company, a cotton and tea company that strayed quite quickly from their mission statement and branched out into being brutal colonial dictators. In 1857, the residents of India – Muslim and Hindu – got fed up of being ruled by what was essentially an evil version of Twinings, and rebelled. The uprising failed and it led to the British government directly ruling in India instead.
