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The East India Company was a British company that was founded to make it easier to trade with countries in Asia. It was mainly for trading spices and other goods.
because India was very very rich.
The British East India Company was established in Calcutta (Now Kolkata.)
With its own private army the British East India Company overcame Indian forces at the Battle of Plassey.
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No countries competed for the East India Company; it was British and never for sale. But other countries traded - sometimes through 'East Indies' companies of their own - with India and competed with the East India Company, such as the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch.
the British East India Company
The East India Company was a British company that was founded to make it easier to trade with countries in Asia. It was mainly for trading spices and other goods.
British East India Company is one of the company. It was present in 1800s.
The two religious groups involved in the Sepoy Mutiny were Hindu and Muslim soldiers in the British East India Company's army. This mutiny took place in 1857 and was a rebellion against British rule in India.
The British East India Company controlled India.
British-India Steam Navigation Company was created in 1856.
After the formation of the British East India Company and the arrival of the British in India
British East India Company
The company was the British East India company (EIC).
No. The BP is a British-based global energy company and the British East India Company was a trading company in the 18th century.
Its not as simple as that. There is no specific point in history when the forces of Great Britain simply fought and defeated the Forces of India and took over the continent.The British East India Company started the process of making India part of the British Empire . Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commencedIn 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the Company,In 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, orIn 1772, when the Company established a capital inCalcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.The rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857 and consequent of the Government of India Act 1858, the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj.The following countries also had colonies in India before the Raj.Portugal, Holland, Denmark and FranceThe link below has some excellent information on the British Raj.