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East India Trading Company

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East India Company This article is about the 16th–19th-century English and British trading company. For the current East India Company (founded 2010), see  Sanjiv Mehta (British businessman) . For other uses, see  East India Company (disambiguation) . For other uses of "HEIC", see  HEIC (disambiguation) . The  East India Company  ( EIC ), also known as the  Honourable East India Company  ( HEIC ),  East India Trading Company  ( EITC ), the  English East India Company  or the  British East India Company , and informally known as  John Company , [2]   Company Bahadur , [3]  or simply  The Company , was an English and later British  joint-stock company . [4]  It was formed to  trade in the Indian Ocean region , initially with the  East Indies  (India and South East Asia), and later with  Qing China . The company ended up seizing  control of large parts of the Indian subcontine...