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The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was 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.
The Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3.c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. [1]
Richard Twining (1749–1824) was an English merchant, a director of the East India Company, and the head of Twinings the tea merchants in the Strand, London. Richard Twining, 1812 engraving by Charles Turner, after John James Halls
The Tea Act of 1773 allowed only one company, the British East India Company, to sell tea in America without paying tax, but such a one-sided deal seemed as unjust to Americans as the original taxes, eventually leading to the famous Boston Tea Party and, following British overreaction, to a widespread re-introduction of tea boycotts.
The British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam in the early 1820s. The first tea crops grown there were of a variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho people. [1] In 1826, the East India Company took over control of the region in the Treaty of Yandabo. In 1837, the first British tea garden was established at ...
Sanjiv Mehta (born October 1961) is an India-born British businessman. He is the owner of "the East India company", which he launched in 2010, presenting it as a revival of the historic East India Company that was dissolved on 1 June 1874. [1] [2] [3] [4]