English East India Company

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The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company.

It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the Headquarters: London, Great Britain. The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and orated by royal charter on Decemit was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice also traded cotton, silk, indigo, saltpeter, and tea and transported slaves.

• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company is published by Bloomsbury (£30). To order a copy go to or call Free UK p&p over £15, online. A relaxed narrative history of the English East India Company from the beginnings until between and ish, reading it I thought I was going to write that it takes a while to get going, but by the time I finished I realised that it never did, rather like a stately Eastindiaman at anchor at Greenhithe it just bobbed up and down in the Thames a little in the swells of the current/5.

I expected a book sub titled A History of the English East India Company to encompass its full history, start to finish, from to its dissolution in Unfortunately, it does not.

There is no mention in the title or in the synopsis that the book ends in Cited by: Antony Wild has succeeded beyond any scale of recognition in his book The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from This book, which details the English East India Company's history will appeal to anyone with an interest in British, Indian, Asian, American, military, nautical, or commerical history-- it is that by: Buy The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company by Keay, John (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.

Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(). A Brief History of the British East India Company. Between early s and the midth century, the British East India Company lead the establishment and expansion of international trade to Asia and subsequently leading to economic and political domination of the entire Indian subcontinent.

The East India Company Began to Focus on Importing From India In the early s the East India Company began dealing with the Mogul rulers of India. On the Indian coasts, English traders set up outposts which would eventually become the cities of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The East India Company – Trade and Conquest from $ Add to cart The East India Company – Book of Coffee $ Add to cart The East India Company – Book of Spices $ Add to cart The East India Company – Book of Tea.

The East India Company really was too big to fail. So it was that in it was saved by history’s first mega-bailout.

But unlike Lehman Brothers, the East India Company really was too big to fail. The second module of the East India Company collection consists of the records of the East India Company’s ‘factories’ (trading posts) from south and southeast Asia, principally what is now India and Indonesia.

These records were returned to London from the factories as evidence of their activities and complement the centrally produced records of classes A to D in module I. The East India Company (EIC) was incorporated by royal charter in The charter granted a monopoly of all English trade in all lands washed by the Indian Ocean (from the southern tip of Africa, to Indonesia in the South Pacific).

Unauthorized (British) interlopers were liable to File Size: KB. From my opinion and u can purchase this book Through online also!!. A history of the English East India company. During years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe".

As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British 4/5(2). If history books had click bait, this would be it.

As a historical account about the East India Company it is an okay introduction. However, since it has no referencing done, it doesn't give a single account or quotation from actual people involved in the East India Company, and it skips a large chunk of their exploits and concluded on an overtly simplified reason, it's not a fruitful book to /5.

British East India Company, –, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies. "Jonathan Israel's The Dutch Republic Boxer's The Dutch Seaborne Empire () is a classic, but his Jan Compagnie in War and Peace () is probably better.

Stephen Bown's Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, (), Is. Robert Knox (8 February – 19 June ) was an English sea captain in the service of the British East India was the son of another sea captain, also named Robert Knox. Born at Tower Hill in London, the young Knox spent most of his childhood in Surrey and was taught by James Fleetwood, later the Bishop of joined his father's crew on the ship Anne for his first Resting place: St Mary's Church, Wimbledon.

Far from disappearing from history, however, the East India Company gained greater control of the Indian subcontinent, which they managed as a virtual corporate colony until the Mutiny of At this point, the British decided that they needed to rule India directly and.

East India Company, Dutch, –, chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade and assure close relations between the government and its colonial enterprises in Asia.

The company was granted a monopoly on Dutch trade E of the. A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army – what we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation.The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century – It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations with Asian by: