EAST INDIA COMPANY
\ˈiːst ˈɪndiə kˈʌmpəni], \ˈiːst ˈɪndiə kˈʌmpəni], \ˈiː_s_t ˈɪ_n_d_i__ə k_ˈʌ_m_p_ə_n_i]\
Definitions of EAST INDIA COMPANY
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an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia.
By Princeton University
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The Dutch trading company under whose auspices Henry Hudson in his vessel, the "Half Moon," sailed up the Hudson River and established three trading posts. The object of the company was not colonization, but a monopoly of the fur trade. In 1621 a similar monopoly was granted by the States General to the newly formed West India Company.
By John Franklin Jameson
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A chartered English company, originally founded in 1600 for trading with India. Since 1748 it acquired great political power, and at the time of its political annihilation (1858) it governed as subject or tributary the vast empire of India, which then passed to the Crown.
By Henry Percy Smith
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