what does East India Company mean?
EAST INDIA COMPANY as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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
Hypernyms(s) East India Company is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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