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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 English East India Company ("the Company") was founded in 1600, as The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.It gained a foothold in India with the establishment of a factory in Masulipatnam on the Eastern coast of India in 1611 and the grant of the rights to establish a factory in Surat in 1612 by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
Old East India House: from a late 17th-century Dutch print. The East India Company was founded in 1600. Until 1621, it occupied rooms in the mansion of its Governor, Sir Thomas Smythe, in Philpot Lane, Fenchurch Street; and from 1621 to 1638 it was housed in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate. [2]
Perates - site where the East Indiaman Earl Talbot wrecked on 22 October 1800 with the loss of all passengers and crew. Pisang or Pulau Pisang, ( 5°07′13″S 103°50′51″E / 5.120294°S 103.847637°E / -5.120294; 103.847637 ), an island off the south coast of Sumatra, between Benkulen and Bengkunat (Bencoomat
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]
The British East India Company (1600−1874) — active on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia during the British colonisation of Asia The main article for this category is East India Company .
East India Company, aka the British East India Company, a former British joint stock company British Egg Industry Council , an organisation set up in 1986 to represent the British egg industry Topics referred to by the same term
The East India Company Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 52), also known as the Charter Act 1793, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which renewed the Charter issued to the British East India Company (EIC). The veto which was originally given to Lord Cornwallis was continued for all the Governor-Generals.