there was lots of gold scattered around Africa and Africans grow sugarcane which is sugar. also they could get to India easier that way
The British East India Company was interested in India because it had lots of good trading materials (such as spices and other luxury goods) and minerals such as gold and diamonds.
the British East India Company
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No country was known as British East Africa.
It was the corporal partnership of The British and East Indies and India
The former British East Africa colony is now Kenya.
The British East India Company
The British owned land mostly in the north and east.
The British were not that interested in Sindh. What they were interested was in stopping insurgents from Sindh attacking the British troops over the border (sound familiar). The easiest way to stop this was to capture Sindh, which they did.
just because
Imperial British East Africa Company was created on 1888-04-18.