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- n. 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
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“The Dutch burghers who ran the town which had a considerable English population, there to look after the interests of the Honourable East India Company rubbed their hands in glee at the prospect of fat profits and prolonged the negotiations for victualling the fleet into weeks.”
“But Jeannin adds that Le Maire “does not dare to speak about it to any one, because the East India Company fears above everything to be forestalled in this design.””
“The East India Company is feeling a little pinch, and is very afraid of the French, who are doing quite well by their Yankey allies.”
“Less than £50,000 was ridiculous considering that the Honourable East India Company spent more than that per annum in bribes.”
“Fox's East India Bill, of which Smith expresses such unqualified commendation, proposed to transfer the government of British India from the Court of Directors of the East India Company to a new board of Crown nominees.”
“Afghanistan (1851), and The Sepoy War in India, which he did not live to finish, and which was completed by G.B. Malleson as The History of the Indian Mutiny (6 vols., 1890); also histories of the East India Company and of Christianity in India, and Lives of Sir John Malcolm and other Indian soldiers and statesmen.”
“The situation for which Pulteney had recommended him to the Court of Directors of the East India Company was, no doubt, a place as member of the Special Commission of Supervision which they then contemplated establishing.”
“Up, and to church, where I saw Sir A. Rickard, though he be under the Black Rod, by order of the Lords 'House, upon the quarrel between the East India Company and Skinner, which is like to come to a very great heat between the two Houses.”
“Malthus spent his life in academic research; he was the first professional economist, teaching at the college founded in Haileybury by the East India Company to train its young administrators; Ricardo set up in business for himself at the age of twenty-two.”
“Power constantly maintained that he was innocent, that it had not been he who was with Charles Young of whose present whereabouts he knew nothing when a quarter-ton of rare wood belonging to the East India Company was spirited off a London wharf in a boat.”
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