The East India Company (EIC) (1600–1874) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to...
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The United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie [vərˈeːnɪɣdə ʔoːstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi]; abbreviated as VOC [veː(j)oːˈseː]), commonly...
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the control of the British East India Company (EIC). The EIC, founded in 1600, established their first trading post in India in 1612, and gradually expanded...
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The French East India Company (French: Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September...
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with India, China and the Far East. The venture was inspired by the success of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company. This...
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up East India Company in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. East India Company is a general term, referring to a number of European trading companies established...
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The Portuguese East India Company (Portuguese: Companhia do commércio da Índia or Companhia da Índia Oriental) was a short-lived and ill-fated attempt...
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The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London...
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The Danish East India Company (Danish: Ostindisk Kompagni) refers to two separate Danish-Norwegian chartered companies. The first company operated between...
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The flag of the East India Company was used to represent the East India Company, which was chartered in England in 1600. The flag was altered as the nation...
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Austrian East India Company (German: Österreichische Ostindien-Kompanie) is a catchall term referring to a series of Austrian trading companies based in...
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The East India Company controlled most of the subcontinent of India. No other company in history has ever governed so many people. With the exception...
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the Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC). The Court of Directors assigned a Council of Four (based in India) to assist the Governor-General...
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Sanjiv Mehta (British businessman) (redirect from East India Company (2010))
Sanjiv Mehta (born October 1961) is an India-born British businessman. He is the owner of "the East India company", which he launched in 2010, presenting...
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East India Company Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to the East India Company. The East India Company Act...
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among the deadliest massacres in Indian history. In 1756, the British East India Company defeated the local Indian Muslim rulers in Plassey and established...
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East India House was the London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took...
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architecture. Gradually expanding rule of the British East India Company followed, turning India into a colonial economy but also consolidating its sovereignty...
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The East India Company Act 1784, also known as Pitt's India Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to address the shortcomings of...
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Regulating Act 1773 (redirect from East India Company Act 1772)
the East India Company Act 1772) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company's rule in...
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The Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, often known as VOC) was a chartered company which issued a considerable series...
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from migrants from India Indian subcontinent East India Company (disambiguation) East Indies (disambiguation) East India Club Dutch East Indies, the Dutch...
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other clubs. The club was originally founded for officers of the East India Company, and its first Patron was Prince Albert. Founded in the middle of...
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Company Danish West India Company David Sassoon & Co. Dutch East India Company Dutch West India Company E.D. Sassoon & Co. French East India Company French...
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East India Company is a real-time strategy video game developed by Finnish company Nitro Games and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released on...
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Between 1612 and 1757 the East India Company set up "factories" (trading posts) in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the...
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private joint-stock companies to finance the voyages: the English (later British) East India Company, and the Dutch East India Company, were chartered in...
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West India Docks which opened in 1802, an act of Parliament, the East India Docks Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3. c. cxxvi) set up the East India Dock Company, promoted...
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The Genoese East India Company (Italian: Compagnia di Negotio or Compagnia Genovese delle indie orientali) was established by Genoa in early 1647 to profit...
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Company rule in the Dutch East Indies began when the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, "United East India Company";...
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