East India Company
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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
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
East India House
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East India House was the London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took control of the company's possessions in India in
East India Company
…and such as none, surely, is likely to attempt in the years to come. The company's headquarters in London, from which much of India was governed, was East India House in Leadenhall Street. After occupying premises in Philpot Lane from 1600 to 1621; in Crosby House, Bishopsgate from 1621 to 1638; and in Leadenhall…
The extended East India House in c. 1800, painted by Thomas Malton
Old East India House: from a late 17th-century Dutch print.
East India House: the Leadenhall Street frontage as rebuilt by Theodore Jacobsen in 1726–9. Engraving by T. Simpson, 1766.
Sale Room of East India House drawn by Thomas Rowlandson & Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809