English East India Company came in India
1500 AD
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The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company,[2] Company Bahadur,[3] or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company.[4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (India and South East Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Middle Eastern Gulf called Persian Gulf Residencies.[5]
East India Company
Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg
Company flag (1801)
Coat of arms of the East India Company.svg
Coat of arms (1698)
Motto: Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae
Latin for "By command of the King and Parliament of England"
Former type
Public
Industry
International trade, drug trafficking (mainly opium)[1]
Fate
Nationalised:
Territories and responsibilities ceded to the British Government by the Government of India Act 1858
dissolved by the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act 1873
Founded
31 December 1600
Founders
John Watts, George White
Defunct
1 June 1874
Headquarters
London, Great Britain
Products
Cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium
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The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.