Company rule in India was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Benga
Regions under Company rule shown in two shades of pink (a) very light (1774–1804) and (b) medium (1805–1858)
India in 1765 and 1805 showing East India Company Territories in pink.
India in 1837 and 1857, showing East India Company-governed territories in pink.
Silver Half-Rupee 1787 Bengal Presidency, Murshidabad Mint, issued in the name of Shah Alam II, Mughal Emperor
The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and
Company rule in India
…Company rule in India (sometimes also Company Raj, from Hindi rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah…
James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601.
Red Dragon fought the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally in 1612, and made several voyages to the East Indies.
The emperor Jahangir investing a courtier with a robe of honour, watched by Sir Thomas Roe, English ambassador to the court of Jahangir at Agra from 1615 to 1618, and others
A document with the original vermilion seal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to the East India Company in 1613