East India Company
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- A seventeenth-century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantage
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See also
- History of India
- British Empire
- History of South Asia series
- New Imperialism series
- Chartered companies
- Governor-General of India
- Commander-in-Chief, India
- List of BEIC directors
- East India Docks, London
- Blackwall Yard, London
- East India Companies
- Assada Company, English, founded 1635 and ceased 1657
- Dutch East India Company, founded 1602 and ceased 1798
- Danish East India Company, founded in 1616 and ceased 1846
- Portuguese East India Company, founded 1628 and ceased 1633
- French East India Company, founded 1664 and ceased 1769
- Swedish East India Company, founded 1731 and ceased 1813
- West India Companies
- Dutch West India Company, founded 1621 and ceased 1791
- French West India Company, founded 1664 and ceased 1674
- Danish West India Company, founded 1671 and ceased 1776
- Other trading companies:
- London Virginia Company, founded 1606 and ceased 1622
- Hudson's Bay Company, founded 1670 and still operating as a Canadian corporation
- Muscovy Company, founded 1555 and ceased 1917
- Royal African Company founded 1660 and ceased 1752
- Virginia Company of Plymouth, founded 1606 and ceased 1609
- East India Company College 1805-1858
- Robert Brooke 1744-1811
- East India Company Cemetery in Macau
- Spice wars
- Carnatic Wars
- Indian Mutiny
- British Imperial Lifeline
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