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  East India Company - MSN Encarta
East India Company, any of a number of commercial enterprises formed in western Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries to further trade with the East Indies.
The most important of the companies were given charters by their respective governments, authorizing them to acquire territory wherever they could and to exercise in the acquired territory various functions of government, including legislation, the issuance of currency, the negotiation of treaties, the waging of war, and the administration of justice.
The East India Company, however, bought control of this new company, and in 1702 an act of Parliament amalgamated the two as “The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.” The charter was renewed several times in the 18th century, each time with financial concessions to the Crown.
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  East India Company College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The East India Company College was from 1805 to 1858 the college of the British East India Company (EIC).
The College provided general and vocational education for youths of sixteen to eighteen nominated by EIC Directors to writerships in the EIC overseas civil service.
Joseph Hallett Batten, D.D., of Penzance was principal of the College.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_India_Company_College   (278 words)

  
 British East India Company Summary
The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favouring trade privileges in India.
By 1689, the Company was arguably a "nation" in the Indian mainland, independently administering the vast presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay and possessing a formidable and intimidating military strength.
On the eve of the demise of the East India Company, the East India Club in London was formed for current and former employees of the East India Company.
www.bookrags.com /British_East_India_Company   (5662 words)

  
 British East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favouring trade privileges in India.
By 1689, the Company was arguably a "nation" in the Indian mainland, independently administering the vast presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay and possessing a formidable and intimidating military strength.
On the eve of the demise of the East India Company, the East India Club in London was formed for current and former employees of the East India Company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_East_India_Company   (4982 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") was established on March 20, 1602, when the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
The flag of the company was orange, white, blue (similar to the current Dutch flag) with the company logo embroidered on it.
The East Indies were awarded to the Kingdom of the Netherlands by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Dutch_East_India_Company   (1443 words)

  
 INDIA AND UNITED  NATIONS
India was the Chairman of the Commission, which implemented the ceasefire agreement between Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and France.
India provided a contingent comprising one infantry battalion and support elements to the UN assistance mission in Rwanda to help ensure security for the refugees, and to create conditions for free and fair elections.
India is also currently participating in the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) with an infantry battalion, a Force Reserve Company and a Field Engineer Construction Company.
www.un.int /india/india_and_the_un_pkeeping.html   (1727 words)

  
 Chp 3, Part II: A Special Operation
The concept that everything in the world belonged to the East India Company (or, to the King of England, or the King of Holland, or the King of Germany) was really a strange development, arising from the realization that the Earth was spherical and therefore finite and that they must acquire property.
In the process, their masters (the top people, the governor of the East India Company) realized that what they were really after was to learn what the assets of the entire Earth were.
It was the East India flag with the red and white stripes and the blue rectangle.
www.ratical.com /ratville/JFK/USO/chp3_p2.html   (10700 words)

  
 British East India Company information - Search.com
The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India.
The Company transformed from a commercial trading venture to one which virtually ruled India as it acquired auxiliary governmental and military functions, until the Company's dissolution in 1858.
The high profits reported by the Company after landing in India (presumably due to a reduction in overhead costs effected by the transit points), initially prompted King James I to grant subsidiary licenses to other trading companies in England.
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Throughout the eighteenth century, the company made treaties or annexed areas by military campaigns; at last in full control of India, it ceded the country to the British government.
Through the East India Company's regulations of 1793, the governor general had promised to 'preserve the laws of the Shaster and the Koran, and to protect the natives of India in the free exercise of their religion'.
Typically, Mill believed that the people of India never had been advanced and that therefore their claim to a glorious past (which some of the early Indologists supported) was historical fantasy.
www.clubs.psu.edu /clubs/vedicsociety/EssayIndologists.htm   (3468 words)

  
 History Indian Mutiny - History Of Ancient, Medieval And Modern India.
This war brought about the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to direct rule by the British government (British Raj) of much of the Indian subcontinent for the next 90 years, although some states retained nominal independence under their respective princes.
Many of the Company's modernising efforts were viewed with automatic distrust; for example, it was feared that the railway, the first of which began running out of Bombay in the 1850s, was a demon.
The East India Company's European forces in the three presidency armies (of Bengal, Madras and Bombay) were transferred to the Queen's army.
www.bharatadesam.com /history/indian_mutiny.php   (6375 words)

  
 Chp 3, Part II: A Special Operation
The concept that everything in the world belonged to the East India Company (or, to the King of England, or the King of Holland, or the King of Germany) was really a strange development, arising from the realization that the Earth was spherical and therefore finite and that they must acquire property.
In the process, their masters (the top people, the governor of the East India Company) realized that what they were really after was to learn what the assets of the entire Earth were.
It was the East India flag with the red and white stripes and the blue rectangle.
www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/USO/chp3_p2.html   (10700 words)

  
 Calendar of Events
Performance and demonstration by a member of the Natya Dance Theatre Company.
Dancers from the Natya Dance Theatre Company lead a dance tour of India.
Darshana Jhaveri and Troupe from India perform MANIPURI, a classical dance style of East India distinguished by expression entirely through body movement with no emphasis on any one part.
www.natya.com /-pages/-subpages/calendar.html   (313 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT Business News: Wilde dream: Distilling 400 years of East India Company for 200-page fun
He is trying to recreate the renowned British East India Company, the mammoth trading corporation, which monopolised trade in India in the 17th and 18th centuries before it was absorbed by the Crown in 1873.
Considering that the East India Company, being the only trading monopoly, wielded considerable influence in the past, Wilde is hopeful that he will be able to win some contracts.
Capitalising on the erstwhile East India Company's name and its connection with India, Wilde hopes to recreate the 'magic' as it were.
www.rediff.com /business/1998/jul/16east.htm   (751 words)

  
 A History of the Church of England in India, by Eyre Chatterton (1924)
Curiously enough, this was one of the periods when the East India Company was most averse to direct missionary efforts in the territories they were administering.
As a Company of traders they had not been unfavourable to the work of missions, especially in South India; as rulers they seem to have increasingly feared the effect of preaching Christianity to their Hindu and Moslem subjects.
Charles Grant, a Bengal civilian, and afterwards the Director of the East India Company, came forward and bought the Church, school-house and burying-ground for Rs.
anglicanhistory.org /india/chatterton1924/07.html   (5009 words)

  
 British India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In the eighteenth century, the French decided to challenge the pre-eminence of the British East India Company, and incited some of the states of the Mogul Empire to attack the British.
During the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, India was the place where many of the second sons of titled families (who would not inherit the family estate, and consequently had to choose between the Church and the Army) went as Army officers to make their fortunes.
The India Act (1858), which abolished the East India Company and transferred its powers to the Crown, represented by the Viceroy, did nothing to alleviate those fears.
www.victorianweb.org /history/empire/India.html   (457 words)

  
 John Muir - LoveToKnow 1911
He was educated at the grammar school of Irvine, the university of Glasgow, and the East India Company's College at Haileybury.
He went to India in 1829, and served with distinction in various offices, as assistant secretary to the board of revenue, Allahabad, as collector at Azimgarh, as principal of the Victoria College, Benares, and as civil and session judge at Fatehpur.
He encouraged the study of Sanskrit, and furthered schemes for the enlightenment and amelioration of the Hindus.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Muir   (387 words)

  
 British India
St Helena was settled by the East India Company in 1659 and was held and administered by them until the island was handed over to the Crown in 1836.
The rival French company, Compagnie des Indes, was established in the 18th century and succeeded the Dutch as Britain's chief rival in Asia.
The records were found ‘confused in a garret' at East India House in Leadenhall Street, in 1682, subsequently removed (with losses) to an old warehouse in 1720, and it was not until 1771 that a Keeper of Accounts and Papers was appointed.
www.aigs.org.au /britind.htm   (2826 words)

  
 The East India Company
This is where the East India Company finds itself now, relegated to the archives of the National Maritime Museum and only an aromatic reminder carried on the odd passing breeze.
The East India Company had a number of routes from London to the shores of Canton, and these included several key stop-off points on the way where ships would either lose or collect sailors to work them.
The East India Company came to an end with the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and its once famous building in Leadenhall Street was unceremoniously pulled down in 1860.
www.masud.co.uk /ISLAM/bmh/BMH-IRO-east_india_co.htm   (1679 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: East meets West in stunning exhibition
The box was made in the 16th century and presented to the Portuguese royal family by the king of Sri Lanka.
Also on display are a rare Rajput portrait of Queen Victoria depicted as a maharani and several important examples of "Company painting" - works by Indian artists for foreign patrons - often members of the British East India Company.
One object of great historical interest is a photo album documenting the imperial journey of Prince Edward of England to India in 1875 to mark the official passage of India into the British Empire.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/01.16/13-india.html   (683 words)

  
 British East India Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
East India Company, British, 1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia.
Indian Mutiny - Indian Mutiny, 1857–58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the...
Empire of free trade: the East India Company and the making of the colonial marketplace.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0816596.html   (557 words)

  
 The South Sea Bubble Collection
Considerations recommending to the proprietors of South-Sea stock, the proposals for ingrafting part of that company's funds into the stock of the bank, and East-India Companies (London: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, 1722).
Act for better securing the monies and effects of the suitors of the Court of Chancery; and to prevent the counterfeiting of East-India bonds, and indorsements thereon; as likewise indorsements on South-Sea bonds (London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty; and Thomas Morris, assignee to George Hills, 1726).
Act to enable the South Sea Company, with the licence and consent of the East India Company, to take in negroes within their limits of trade, and to deliver the same at Buenos Ayres (London: Printed by John Baskett...
www.library.hbs.edu /hc/ssb/companies/eastindiacompany.html   (277 words)

  
 The East Indian Community | Original Inhabitants of Bombay, Salsette & Thana.
He was one of the founders of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in 1920, a labour leader, as well as the one who started the Home Rule League in Belgaum in 1916.
After finishing his education at St. Xavier’s College, he joined the Royal Insurance Company in 1901 where by steady and intelligent work, he rose to the position of Accountant and official Superintendent.
D’Mello retired in 1936, and the Company accorded their high sense of appreciation for this excellent work by giving him a farewell address and presenting w silver salver.
www.east-indians.com /profile.htm   (2186 words)

  
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She became India's first brew master, after specialising in malting and brewing technology from the Ballarat College, Melbourne.
This company was started in 1943 on the money gifted to the founder by his father upon his success in studies.
His pessimistic views played a big part in economics being called a 'dismal science.' In 1805, he was appointed professor of history and political economy at the East India Company's college in Haileybury, Hertfordshire, thus becoming possibly the worl d's first professor in political economy.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /bq/bq040415.htm   (290 words)

  
 Henry Parke AIREY CMG, Australia's 1st DSO
AIREY, HENRY PARKE (1842-1911), was born on 3 August 1842 at Kingthorpe, Yorkshire, England, son of an Indian Army officer.
Educated at Marlborough College and the East India Company's Military College at Addiscombe, he went to India on graduating in 1859, and was commissioned ensign in the 101st Regiment (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) in 1861.
He was promoted Major in June 1893 then spent several months training in India: he became Lieut-colonel in August 1895, and was appointed honorary Aide-de-Camp to the governor in November 1896.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-heroes/airey.htm   (619 words)

  
 ICJ - The First Indologists - Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
5. Robert Chatfield, The Rise and Progress of Christianity in the East, p 367.
14. T. Walter Wallbank, India: A Survey of the Heritage and Growth of Indian Nationalism, p.
21. Richard Garbe, India and Christendom: The Historical Connection Between Their Religions, trans.
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 Ford Foundation: Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation Contribution - [37]
It is hard to exaggerate the role of India in promoting interest in population questions.
Thomas Malthus taught at the East India Company's College, while both John Stuart Mill and Maynard Keynes worked for the India Office.
The 1911 Census attempted to relate the cultivable area in different parts of India to the rate of population growth in order to explore Malthusian pressures.
www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/0175/045.cfm   (481 words)

  
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In the rat race to the hot seat, Chakraborty, a Presidency College graduate, had two other contenders, Ranjit Mohanty, inspector-general of police, south Bengal, and Shyamal Dutta, additional director-general of the state intelligence branch.
The BBC crew is also awaiting clearance from New Delhi to film a “historical dig’’ at Clive House by the Archaeological Survey of India.
The crew hinges it contention on the fact that Clive inherited the mansion as East India Company chief in 1758.
www.telegraphindia.com /1010524/the_east.htm   (3525 words)

  
 India
Shackleton, R, Jr, "The French in India," The New Englander, vol.
Robert D. Blackwill, Ambassador to India, "The United States, India and Asian Security," Presented to the Institute for Defense Analyses 5th Asian Security Conference, New Delhi, India, January 27, 2003
Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, "India and Pakistan: On the Heels of President Bush's Visit," Remarks to the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, March 6, 2006
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/india.htm   (1117 words)

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