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| | EAST INDIA COMPANY |
 | | The company was to contribute to the propagation of Christianity by supporting Catholic missionaries (Furber, pp. | | | In Persia, political unrest was aggravated by the threat of Arab hegemony in the Persian Gulf. | | | Dutch and English agents eluded the proposed alliance, as it would have required the mobilization of an important task force and troops that the Safavid state, harassed on its frontiers, appeared unable to muster. |
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| | The East India Company |
| | After the Mutiny, contact with India was maintained under the Queen’s Viceroys and towards the end of the 19 | | | It, more so even than the Indiamen, recruited sailors locally, and as its ships would often return to England for refits, Muslim sailors were brought to Britain by the Bombay Marine where they would have to wait months sometimes for the ship to return to eastern waters. | | | Located particularly at St Mary’s, a tiny island off the east coast of Madagascar, Perim, an island off Zanzibar, and Babu-l Mandab, known to them as Bab’s Key, the Red Sea Rovers were a major threat to shipping throughout the late 17 |
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| | EAST INDIA COMPANY |
| | While Portugal was politically united with Spain, from 1580 to 1640, the company encountered opposition from Portuguese trading interests, which were already established on the Indian mainland, islands in the Indian Ocean, and particularly in the Persian Gulf area. | | | They are preserved in the India Office Library in London, under the headings Persia and the Persian Gulf Records and Bombay Public Consultations (or Proceedings); in the National Archives of India at New Delhi; and in the Maharashtra State Archives, Bombay (Basra and Gombroon factory diaries). | | | The East India Company maintained its factories in Kerma@n and Isfahan throughout Na@der's reign, but a renewal of civil war after his assassination in 1747—and lack of encouragement by Na@der's immediate successors—persuaded them to withdraw from Isfahan to Bandar(-e) ¿Abba@s (q.v.) in 1750. |
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| | Dutch East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Company supported Christian missionaries and traded modern technology with China and Japan. | | | The Chamber of Hoorn raised an amount of f 266,868. | | | Other colonial outposts were also established in the East Indies what later became Indonesia, such as on the Spice Islands (Moluccas), which include the Banda Islands where the VOC forcibly maintained a monopoly over nutmeg and mace. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
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| | Tranquebar : The Danish East India Company 1616 - 1669 |
| | Pessart, who must have felt the place getting too hot for him, denied Leyel access to Dansborg, the fortress at Tranquebar, shutting the gates and refusing to hand over his books. | | | Long before the expeditionary fleet was ready to sail, the ship Øresund was outfitted and ready. | | | Leyel was not, however, to be in charge of the colony for very long; in 1648, a number of his officers led a succesful mutiny against him. |
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http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html
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| | British East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it was immediately apparent that the boundaries between governmental control and the Company's powers were obscure and highly subject to interpretation. | | | The costs of administration were also to be met by the company. | | | This victory estranged the British and the Mughals, who had been served by Siraj as an autonomous ruler. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company
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| | DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY - LoveToKnow Article on DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY |
| | On those distant seas the traders could neither be controlled nor protected by their native government. | | | Unsuccessful attempts were made to find a route to the East by the north of Europe arid Asia, which would have been free from interference from the Spaniards and Portuguese. | | | The collegium of seventeen nominated the governors-general who were appointed after 1608. |
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http://100.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DU/DUTCH_EAST_INDIA_COMPANY.htm
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| | Swedish East India Company |
| | The Chinese regarded all foreigners with suspicion and contact with the "Foreign Devils" was severely restricted. | | | The Swedish East India Company, Trading to China (1731-1813) | | | These and other exotic products of China had been eagerly sought by Europeans since Roman times. |
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http://www.gotheborg.com/dest/soic.shtml
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| | The East India Company |
| | However he did acknowledge that they were all East Indian officers and most were associated with the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. | | | This is near my home and I was aware that they had a college there and that some of the local roads were named after famous men from the East India Company. | | | The East India Company was founded in 1600 and it became the most powerful company the world has ever known. |
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| | Trade to Colonization - Historic Dynamics, East India Companies - History, British Colonization, India, African Slave ... |
| | Some historians tried to argue that competition with the French precipitated the battles in South India, but such a view is contradicted by a Frenchman, no less! | | | The conquest of India continued with conclusive defeats of the Marathas in 1818, the Sikhs in 1848 and the annexation of Awadh in 1856. | | | But, had the East Company comprised of "Gentlemen Traders" as some historians have claimed, they could not have switched so easily from trading in Indian Textiles, to trading in Opium for Tea which, in modern language - would surely be described as a form of "drug-running"! |
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| | Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia |
| | Spices and other Asian goods were coming up through the Red Sea, carried by Arab and Persian traders into the Western world to be re-distributed. | | | There is the war against the Dutch, which is partly reflecting Dutch claims and aggression towards the English in Southeast Asia, and English counterclaims to freedom of the seas. | | | The Company were turning up in heavily armed ships that could hold their own against any Asian shipping that we know of. |
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| | East India Company Medals |
| | A Coorg warrior with sword raised and a musket in his left hand. | | | Edge inscription in Karanese "A Mark of Favor given for Loyalty to the Company's Government in Suppressing the Rebellion in the Months of April and May 1837." | | | The civil division was established in 1902 and, also, in 1902 the name was changed to the "Indian Order of Merit" (to avoid probable confusion with the newly instituted Order of Merit, 00000, above.) In 1912, when the Victoria Cross became available to soldiers of the Indian Army, the I.O.M. was reduced to two classes. |
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http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/india/medals/EICMed.html
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| | EAST INDIA COMPANY - LoveToKnow Article on EAST INDIA COMPANY |
| | This million was required for the war with France, which extended to India and involved the English and French companies there in long-drawn hostilities, in which the names of Dupleix and Clive became prominent. | | | Under this award the company was to lend the nation 3,200,000, and its exclusive privileges were to cease at three years notice after this amount had been repaid. | | | This decision led up to the act of 1698, which created a new East India Company in consideration of a loan of two millions to the state. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EA/EAST_INDIA_COMPANY.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - East India Company |
| | It was continually harassed by traders who were not members of the company and were not licensed by the Crown to trade. | | | In 1784 the India Act created a department of the British government to exercise political, military, and financial control over the Indian affairs of the company, and during the next half century British control was extended over most of the subcontinent. | | | The companies, which had varying degrees of governmental support, grew out of the associations of merchant adventurers who voyaged to the East Indies following the discovery in 1497 of the Cape of Good Hope route by Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571539/East_India_Company.html
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| | East India Company, British on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The star in the east: the controversy over Christian missions to India, 1805-1813. | | | Finally, after the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 the government assumed direct control, and the East India Company was dissolved. |
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| | East India Company |
| | The United Company was organized into a court of 24 directors who worked through committees. | | | Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. | | | The Regulating Act (1773) and Pitt's India Act (1784) established government control of political policy through a regulatory board responsible to Parliament. |
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| | Chp 3, Part II: A Special Operation |
| | This started a significant train of thought in the educated, financial, politically powerful groups of the world, particularly the European world. | | | That these enormously powerful leaders, stemming from the East India Company, got into this psychic research arena and even began to impress upon the society of the United States, South Africa -- other parts of the world -- their own beliefs in the power of seances and in the power of mind control. | | | 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. |
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| | Manas: History and Politics, East India Company |
| | The famine of 1769-70, which the Company's policies did nothing to alleviate, may have taken the lives of as many as a third of the population. | | | Major victories were achieved against Tipu Sultan of Mysore and the Marathas, and finally the subjugation and conquest of the Sikhs in a series of Anglo- Sikh Wars led to British occupation over the entirety of India. | | | In 1858 the East India Company was dissolved, despite a valiant defense of its purported achievements by John Stuart Mill, and the administration of India became the responsibility of the Crown. |
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| | East India Company (United Kingdom) |
| | This is somewhat misleading, as it implies that the East India Company had the right to sail under their own flag, and that this right was being restricted. | | | This order was constantly repeated in instructions to departing captains until September 1688, which was when James II fled to France, the future William III landed in England, and Pepys lost his position as Secretary of the Admiralty. | | | Both feature the arms of the East India Company, which I'll attempt to describe. |
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| | Dutch East India Company -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The world became involved in the Middle East wars after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956. | | | The Hindu influence had been introduced by traders from India centuries before. | | | Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. |
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| | Opium War: Britain Stole Hong Kong From China |
| | Britain's East India Company would wage three wars on the people of China in order to secure the right to sell opium there. | | | Rowntree wrote that the British were "in a great hurry to make money out of the East, and the gunboats were found to clear the way quickly. | | | Karl Marx wrote in "Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist," Volume One of "Capital": "The English East India Company, as is well known, obtained, besides the political rule in India, the exclusive monopoly of the tea-trade, as well as of the Chinese trade in general, and of the transport of goods to and from Europe. |
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| | webindia123.com-Indian History-Modern-ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY |
| | Various factors besides the lack of a political authority in India encouraged the company to unleash a vigorous policy of trade. | | | Besides this the defeat of the Spanish Armada had made England the mistress of the seas. | | | In 1611 factories were set up on the east coast at Masaulipatam. |
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| | A Moment in Time: Dutch East India Company - Part II |
| | The Company was actually a group of entrepreneurs owning small trading companies who combined their knowledge and resources. | | | In 1799 the Dutch government assumed rule of the Spice Islands and maintained control until 1949. | | | The Company had the power to build and maintain armed forces, rule territories, wage war, govern customs duties, and administer justice. |
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| | The East India Rock Company. |
| | Indian State of Kerala Joins Opposition to Coca-Cola: "In another major defeat for the Coca-Cola company in India, the state government of Kerala has challenged the company's right to use groundwater in the Supreme Court of India, arguing that water is being taken from poor communities to produce drinking water for the rich." | | | The EIRC has fan groups on Facebook and Myspace. | | | We have been asked to provide information about The East India Rock Company fan groups on the web. |
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| | Netherlands East India Company |
| | The (six) chambers of the VOC (Dutch United East India Company) had their own flags: the town flag with the VOC-cypher, above this the initial of the town. | | | Some say the "A" stands for Amsterdam and was used by this chamber, other say it stands for "Algemeene Oostindische Compagnie" ["General East India Company"]. | | | The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC, United East India Company) existed 1602-1798. |
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| | HISTORY: The East India Trade |
| | Their version of the company's history may also be found at this site. | | | Empire of Free Trade : The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (Critical Histories) by Sudipta Sen | | | Scholiast.org > History > The East India Trade (AD 1500 to 1800) |
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| | East India Trading Company Project |
| | Each company will attempt to make the most economically sound decisions about the purchases they make from each port city. | | | This project utilizes all of the geographic skills the students should have learned. | | | Do not sail through the Arctic Ocean, and remember that the earth is round. |
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| | VOC - Dutch East India Company- Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie |
| | Its purpose was not only trade; the Compagnie also had to fight the enemies of the Republic and prevent other European nations to enter the East India trade. | | | Her factories or tradecentres were world famous: Desjima in Japan, Mokha in Yemen, Surat in Persia and of course Batavia, the Company's headquarters on Java. | | | Nu, 400 jaar later, is er nog steeds een factorij actief op het Web. |
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| | Browse: The East India Company |
| | Jan van Linschoten's His Discourse of Voyages into the Easte and Weste Indies | | | Chart of the East Indies, by Pieter Goos, c. | | | The Return of the Dutch East India Fleet 1 May 1599 |
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| | East India Company Restaurant - Ottawa Winnipeg Montreal Canada |
| | The company is known not only for the high quality of food and service provided, but also for the atmosphere created through authentic Indian artwork ranging from 100 to 500 years old displayed through out the restaurants. | | | East India Company Restaurants have been in business for over thirty years and have always enjoyed a reputation for the best East Indian Food in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Montreal Canada. | | | Copyright ©2004, 2005 East India Company Restaurants - all rights reserved. |
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| | East India Company Ships |
| | Welcome to this website about the ships of the East India Company | | | When completed it will provide information on all the ships, voyages and seafarers of the East India Company's mercantile services. | | | It is a database-driven site which will be fully searchable in many different ways. |
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| | The company was engaged in supplying Quartz and Feldspar raw materials for the Indian Glass and Ceramic Industries. | | | We started exporting Feldspar to Thailand and Malaysia in 1970 and started exporting Quartz to Japan from 1977 onwards. | | | Started in 1960 East India Mining Company were the pioneers in the field of mining Quartz and Feldspar in India. |
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| | french east india company - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | East India Company, French, French East India Company : Encyclopedia.com [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "french east india company" is defined. | | | We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word french east india company: |
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| | Historical Flags - United East India Company |
| | The "VOC" meant Vereenigte Oost Indise Compagnie (United East India Company). | | | The orange, white and blue colors were from the Dutch National flag. | | | Henry Hudson first brought this flag to America in 1609 while exploring Delaware Bay and the Hudson River. |
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| | VOC (Dutch East India Company) wrecks |
| | Approximately 1500 vessels were built for the VOC in the nearly 200 years' of its existence. | | | Dutch East India Company Wrecks and WWW Links | | | Please send any information you may have to Koen van den Dries, Northallerton, UK. |
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| | The Dutch East India Company - anagrams |
| | Find gold service anagrams of the dutch east india company (or any other text)! | | | Find anagram aliases of the dutch east india company (or any other text)! | | | the dutch east india company - anagrams page and |
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