British East India Company love

British East India Company

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A seventeenth-century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantage

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word British East India Company.

Examples

  • The British East India Company was the main purveyor of tea to Europe and to the American colonies.

    Boston 1775 2009

  • India's 565 "princely states"—the realms of once omnipotent, sometimes semisacred rulers—were gradually brought under the control of the British East India Company, beginning in the mid-18th century; most had yielded by 1818.

    Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011

  • The British East India Company was in dire need of fresh cash, and was able to convince the Parliament to allow them to sell tea to the American colonies at a low price, but undercutting local merchants, and most importantly, still receiving a token duty tax that the Americans would be forced to pay, with no counterpart.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Mars has been settled initially by the equivalent of the British East India Company, who are of course interested in profit above all else.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Exactly What I Wanted: A New Kage Baker Novel 2010

  • Using the exclusive trade rights of the British East India Company, England had saturated Chinese markets with opium.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • The British East India Company was in dire need of fresh cash, and was able to convince the Parliament to allow them to sell tea to the American colonies at a low price, but undercutting local merchants, and most importantly, still receiving a token duty tax that the Americans would be forced to pay, with no counterpart.

    Tea Party Protests – 21st century style (English) Rene Meertens 2010

  • England was looking to prop up the British East India Company, so it gave the company a tax break that enabled it to undercut colonial tea merchants.

    Tea Party Finds Inspiration In Boston History 2010

  • Using the exclusive trade rights of the British East India Company, England had saturated Chinese markets with opium.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence.

    Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s 2009

  • Nor is the cause entirely traceable to our pursuit of refined weapons and lethal technology, or the military bases with which the U.S. has encircled the globe, or the financial interests, the Halliburtons and Raytheons, the DynCorps and Blackwaters that combine against peace with demands in excess of the British East India Company at the height of its influence.

    David Bromwich: America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.