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- noun an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny
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Examples
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The East India Company was the target of that Boston Tea Party, after all, for a reason.
Greedy Health Care Special Interests Wage Most Expensive War Ever 2009
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The methods were not always wholly admirable; but we must remember that the East India Company was a mercantile association, fighting for its existence under diamond-cut-diamond conditions; and we must remember also that, although its representatives at Madras were sent out to
The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow
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Debt, the Bank of England, the East India Company were the only examples of really large and safe investments at the opening of the eighteenth century.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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[24] The East India Company was a famous joint stock trading corporation, formed in England early in the seventeenth century, to carry on commerce with the East Indies.
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The Freemen of this Province understand, from good authority, that there is a quantity of tea consigned to your house by the East India Company, which is destructive to the happiness of every well-wisher to his country.
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The East India Company was a wonderful Company for writing despatches.
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 John Bright 1850
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"That is because you have only been introduced to the Royal Navy; but there is another navy not so ornamental, but quite as useful, called the East India Company's."
Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849
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But national instinct is often wiser than what is supposed to be high national statesmanship, and there can be no doubt that the true foundation of the East India Company was the simple recognition of an iron necessity.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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But national instinct is often wiser than what is supposed to be high national statesmanship, and there can be no doubt that the true foundation of the East India Company was the simple recognition of an iron necessity.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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But national instinct is often wiser than what is supposed to be high national statesmanship, and there can be no doubt that the true foundation of the East India Company was the simple recognition of an iron necessity.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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