INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train “writers” (administrators) for the Honourable East India Company (HEIC).

Detailed explanation-2: -an educational and training institute for the newly recruited cadets of the east india company. The idea of giving the East India Cadets (newly recruited members of the Company’s Civil Service) a designed education and training before they entered active service was first conceived and implemented by Lord wellesley.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally the most junior employee of the East India Company whilst it was a trading company. Later, as it became involved in administration, it retained the term “writer” for its most junior civil servants. The term is also used in the Royal Navy for clerks.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was the East India Company? The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.