British East India Company - Footholds in India

The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. The Royal Charter effectively gave the newly created Honourable East India Company a monopoly on all trade in the East Indies. The Company transformed from a commercial trading venture to one which virtually ruled India as it acquired auxiliary governmental and military functions, until t ...

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• British East India Company - Flags
• British East India Company - Impact
• British East India Company - History
• British East India Company - The foundation years
• British East India Company - Footholds in India
• British East India Company - Expansion
• British East India Company - The road to a complete monopoly
• British East India Company - The Basis of the Monopoly
• British East India Company - Regulation of the company's affairs
• British East India Company - The end
• British East India Company - East India Club
• British East India Company - Notes

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British East India Company - The foundation years. The Company was founded as The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies by a coterie of enterprising and influential businessmen, who obtained the Crown's charter for exclusive permission to trade in the East Indies for a period of fifteen years. The Company had 125 shareholders, and a capital of £72,000. Initially, however, it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and at first it could not establis ...

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Based in London, the company presided over the creation of the British Raj. In 1717, the Company received a royal dictate from the Mughal Emperor exempting the Company from the payment of custom duties in Bengal, giving it a decided commercial advantage in the Indian trade. A decisive victory by Sir Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 established the British East India Company as a military as well as a commercial power. By 1760, the French were driven out of India, with the exception of a ...

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Downman (1685) Lens (1700) Rees (1820) Laurie (1842) The East India Company flag changed over time. From the period of 1600 to 1707 (Act of Union between England and Scotland) the flag consisted of a St George's cross in the canton and a number of alternating Red and White stripes. After 1707 the canton contained the original Union Flag consisting of a combined St George's cross and a St Andrew's cross. After the Act of Union in 1800, that joined Ireland into the United Kingdom, the canton of the East India Compan ...

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