English East India Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:04:39 1 History
00:04:48 1.1 Origins
00:07:06 1.2 Formation
00:09:17 2 Early voyages to the East Indies
00:12:04 3 Foothold in India
00:14:14 4 Expansion
00:19:21 4.1 Japan
00:20:44 4.2 Mughal convoy piracy incident of 1695
00:24:03 5 Forming a complete monopoly
00:24:14 5.1 Trade monopoly
00:29:18 5.2 Saltpetre trade
00:30:56 6 Basis for the monopoly
00:31:05 6.1 Colonial monopoly
00:33:13 6.2 East India Company Army and Navy
00:34:33 6.2.1 Expansion and conquest
00:39:40 6.3 Opium trade
00:42:22 7 Regulation of the company's affairs
00:42:33 7.1 Writers
00:43:22 7.2 Financial troubles
00:45:02 7.3 Regulating Acts of Parliament
00:45:12 7.3.1 East India Company Act 1773
00:47:42 7.3.2 East India Company Act 1784 (Pitt's India Act)
00:49:40 7.3.3 Act of 1786
00:51:09 7.3.4 East India Company Act 1793 (Charter Act)
00:51:56 7.3.5 East India Company Act 1813 (Charter Act)
00:53:08 7.3.6 Government of India Act 1833
00:54:49 7.3.7 English Education Act 1835
00:55:12 7.3.8 Government of India Act 1853
00:55:55 8 Indian Rebellion and disestablishment
00:57:42 9 Establishments in Britain
01:01:44 10 Legacy and criticisms
01:07:07 11 Symbols
01:07:16 11.1 Flags
01:08:46 11.2 Coat of arms
01:10:37 11.3 Merchant mark
01:11:28 12 Ships
01:13:59 13 Records
01:15:10 14 See also
01:16:20 15 Notes and references
01:16:30 16 Further reading
01:16:39 16.1 Historiography



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The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies (Maritime Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonized parts of Southeast Asia, and colonized Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.
Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India. In his speech to the House of Commons in July 1833, Lord Macaulay explained that since the beginning, the East India company had always been involved in both trade and politics, just as its French and Dutch counterparts had been.The company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600, coming relatively late to trade in the Indies. Before them the Portuguese Estado da Índia had traded there for much of the 16th century and the first of half a dozen Dutch Companies sailed to trade there from 1595. These Dutch companies amalgamated in March 1602 into the United East Indies Company (VOC), which introduced the first permanent joint stock from 1612 (meaning investment into shares did not need to be returned, but could be traded on a stock exchange). By contrast, wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned the EIC's shares. Initially the government owned no shares and had only indirect control until 1657 when permanent joint stock was established.During its first century of operation, the focus of the company was trade, not the building of an empire in India. Company interests turned from trade to territory during the 18th century as the Mughal Empire declined in power and the East India Company struggled with its French counterpart, the French East India Company (Compagnie française des Indes orientales) during the Carnatic Wars of the 1740s and 1750s. The battles of Plassey and Buxar, in which the British ...