LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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The British East India Company was originally a group of London businessmen engaged in importing spices from South Asia.
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The British East India Company first entered South Asia as importers of British Tea.
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The British East India Company was essentially a covert British army.
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English East India Company was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600 and went on to act as a part-trade organization, part-nation-state and reap vast profits from overseas trade with India, China, Persia and Indonesia for more than two centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -End of Company rule The Crown also directly appointed the governor-general, or viceroy, and provincial governors in India. The East India Company itself was formally dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1874. Thus began the British Raj, direct imperial rule of India by the British state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main goal of the British East India Company was to be involved with the spice trade with Asia. While colonization would become another goal of the company, the main driving purpose was to make a profit through trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The main different between the British East India Company (EIC) and the later British Raj in India was that the the EIC was a business, while the British Raj involved the political machinery of the state. Both the EIC and the Raj had somewhat comparable policies in India.