"The Anarchy - The East India Company, Corporate violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" by William Dalrymple
In 1617, the date when Moghul Emperor Jahangir, granted the EIC trading rights, the Moghul Empire accounted for a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of the globe’s manufactured goods, while England, with a 20th of India’s population, produced three per cent of the world’s manufactured goods.