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Definition of East India Company
1. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of East India Company
Literary usage of East India Company
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn (1889)
"1698, ami the old (the " London ") suspend«! from trading f г three years ; the
two were united 1702 New East India company established . ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The knowledge that the East India Company was prepared to come to the rescue ...
The petitioners proposed to buy out the East India Company by raising the ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The Dutch East India Company In the year 1602 is dated the erection of the famed
Dutch East India Company, a source of immense wealth to Holland, ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"C ; RECORDS OF THE East India Company.» By STEPHEN WHEELER. THE first letter-book
of the East ludia Company, never before in type, contains a mass of ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Elphinstone, Sir John Malcolm, and Lord Clare, and also of the court of directors
of the East India Company. In those days the superintendence of the police ..."
6. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"... and save the East India Company. The demand of the American market for tea
was already enormous. The most portable and easily prepared of beverages, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1811)
"... and Historiographer to the Honourable East India Company. 410. 3 Vols. ...
history of the East India Company is no doubt a very -*• considerable object. ..."
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