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The East India Company ( EIC) [ a ] 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 (the South and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and colonised ...
The East India Company controlled most of the subcontinent of India. No other company in history has ever governed so many people. No other company in history has ever governed so many people. With the exception of China , the E.I.C. controlled a larger population by the nineteenth century than any government of any country in the world.
Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, [6] from Hindi rāj, lit. ' rule ' [7]) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; [8] or in 1765, when the ...
White was born in Bristol, England, at the end of English Civil War and was the son of a merchant trader. [citation needed] White gained his Master's Certificate and set sail for India in 1670. As an officer on a ship owned by Mr. Jearsey a prominent figure in the East India Company stationed in Fort St George India.
A. Abercromby (1795 ship) HMS Abergavenny. Achilles (1781 ship) Active (1764 ship) Active (1800 ship) Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Aplin (1802 EIC ship) Admiral Barrington (1781 ship)
The United East India Company ( Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie [vərˈeːnɪɣdə oːstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi], abbreviated as VOC, Dutch: [veː.oːˈseː] ), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. [ 3][ 4] Established on 20 March 1602 ...
Nagpuri. Eastern India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, [ 1] Jharkhand, [ 2] Odisha [ 3] and West Bengal [ 4] and also the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [ 5] The states of Bihar and West Bengal lie on the Indo-Gangetic plain. Jharkhand is situated on the Chota Nagpur Plateau.
The first East India House on the site was an Elizabethan mansion, previously known as Craven House, which the Company first occupied in 1648. This was completely rebuilt in 1726–29; and further remodelled and extended in 1796–1800. It was demolished in 1861. The Lloyd's building, headquarters for Lloyd's of London, was built on the site of ...