EAST INDIA COMPANY

Of tb yarious — companies chartered t trade with India, that founded by Londo | merchants in 1600 absorbed the rest, an by 1710 stood as the representative < English influence In India. Head quarte: were established in Madras, Bombay, an Calcutta. Founded only for purposes « trade, the Company began none the le to make capital out of ean among th native princes, and us became th.| proprietor of large domains. Renewals: the charter wero a b loans to government. 1858, after th Indian Mutiny, India pa ed to the Crow: The East India Company was popular i known as** John Company.” [s. 129]