Of the Company, by the Company, for the Company: a legislative history of corporate laws in India

This PhD project by Tanvee Nandan seeks to understand the legislative history of corporate laws in India from their early inception to their current iteration. In drawing this legislative history, the research focuses on India’s early engagement with corporations by way of its colonisation by the English East India Company after its arrival in 1600 to ‘Indian’ shores. By ‘denaturalising’ and carefully (re)describing corporations, corporate laws, and the state’s role in shaping commercial relations, her thesis is exploring the meeting of the ways of doing business and corporate forms in India as told through the legislative history of corporate laws in India.