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“The problem was, how would the East India Company rule these territories and by what principle?” says Tirthankar Roy, a professor of economic history at the London School of Economics and author ofThe East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation. “A company is not a state....
The East India Company (EIC)[a] (1600–1874) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.[4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia....
that of Europe’s 25 per cent. By 1950, as India became a secular democracy, its share had dropped to just over three per cent. In the intervening period the subcontinent had been ruled by outsiders, namely, the British East India Company until 1858, then by the British Raj until 1947....
Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history.Huw Bowen | Published in History Today Volume 50 Issue 7 July 2000 The year 2000 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of the English East India Company...
The British East India company also wanted to be able to grow tea themselves and further control the market. So they commissioned botanist Robert Fortune to steal tea from China in a covert operation. He disguised himself and took a perilous journey throug...
2.1 The Conquest of India In 1600, the establishment of the British East India Company marked the beginning of the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The British East India Company had been operating in India since the early 17th century, butthe Indian troops started an uprisingin 1857...
The British East India Company formally lasted until 1874 but after 1857 it was a shell of its former self. It was responsible for trade monopolization on behalf of the British in the Indian Ocean and, later, into the South China Sea. ...
As the Elizabethan era approached its end, the East India Company set out to compete with the Portuguese, Dutch and French in India, developing the ports of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. This marked the beginning of the process whereby Britain came to dominate India's political landscape for ...