Website Designer & Instagram Growth Hacker on Instagram: "Late 1600s. The Indian Ocean trade routes. Elihu Yale rises inside the British East India Company. A global machine of commerce, power, and coercion. He becomes Governor of Madras. Fort St. George. The edge of Britain’s eastern empire. Yale manages trade, taxation, and diplomacy. Textiles. Spices. Silver flows east and west. But ambition outruns restraint. Company records show accusations— private trade, favoritism, profits beyond officia

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