how did the rule of the east india company came to an end
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The English East India Company operated for 274 years, starting from 1600 when a Charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth I, giving The Company the monopoly to undertake trading expeditions to the East Indies. The Company's life ended in 1874, sixteen years after the end of the Indian Mutiny in 1858.
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on 2 August 1858, over a year before Canning's declaration that hostilities had ended, the Government of India Act stripped the Company of its burden; the responsibility for governing India passed to parliament and the British crown.
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