HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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disbanded the British East India Co.
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abolished the British East India Co. monopoly in India.
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opened India to Christian missionaries.
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took control of India.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The process initiated in 1793 of reducing the trading monopoly of the East India Company was completed in 1833 when the Company not only lost their special trading privileges but also the right to trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Charter act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East India Company in India, however the company’s monopoly in trade with china and trade in tea was remained intact.
Detailed explanation-3: -The company’s commercial monopoly was broken in 1813, and from 1834 it was merely a managing agency for the British government of India. It lost that role after the Indian Mutiny (1857). In 1873 it ceased to exist as a legal entity. Read more about the Indian Mutiny that hastened the end of the East India Company.