VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / East India Company

Thesaurus: East India Company

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 ove…

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. 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