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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 East India Company was wound up in 1858, when its assets passed to the government; and the building became the India Office. This, however, was only a temporary arrangement, as a new India Office building was already being planned for Whitehall. East India House was vacated in 1860, and the following year was sold for redevelopment and ...
On 8 October 1799 the "Lascelles East India store ship" sailed from Plymouth for The Downs under escort by HMS Childers. [10] On 2 January 1801, Lloyd's List reported that, ”The Lascelles, late Wallace, from Surinam to London, is on shore at Surinam River.” [11] Lascelles was refloated and continued her voyage. Later she sprang a leak while ...
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 colonial Madras Presidency comprised an area of 148,796 square miles (385,380 km 2), of which 141,705 square miles (367,010 km 2) were under direct British rule, while the rest was distributed amongst the princely states. In the areas administered by the British, three systems of land proprietorship existed: zamindaris, inams and ryotwaris.
He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the company three times (1797, 1802 and 1810) and Chairman of the company , in each of the ...
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