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Noun: East India Company
  1. 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

Type of: company

Encyclopedia: East India Company

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