East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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The East India Company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, and kept trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.
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The East India Company ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India.
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Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj.
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The East India Company was dissolved in 1874 as a result of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it vestigial, powerless, and obsolete.
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The East India Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in 1612, at Suvali in Surat.
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The East India Company decided to explore the feasibility of a foothold in mainland India, with official sanction from both Britain and the Mughal Empire, and requested that the Crown launch a diplomatic mission.
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The high profits reported by the company after landing in India initially prompted James I to grant subsidiary licences to other trading companies in England.
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The East India Company, which benefited from the imperial patronage, soon expanded its commercial trading operations.
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The East India Company's envoys had to prostrate themselves before the emperor, pay a large indemnity, and promise better behaviour in the future.
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The East India Company sought a permanent establishment, while Parliament would not willingly allow it greater autonomy and so relinquish the opportunity to exploit the company's profits.
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The East India Company became the single largest player in the British global market.
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The East India Company knew that Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn had amassed a substantial fortune from the Levant and Indian trades.
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The The East India Company bore heavy losses and its stock price fell significantly.
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The East India Company had eighteen million pounds of tea sitting in British warehouses.
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East India Company had been granted competitive advantages over colonial American tea importers to sell tea from its colonies in Asia in American colonies.
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The East India Company's merchant mark consisted of a "Sign of Four" atop a heart within which was a saltire between the lower arms of which were the initials "EIC".
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