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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: National Army Museum - Armies of the East India Company. | Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The East India Company: Pioneering Corporation or Plundering Pirates? | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - Aurangzeb versus the East India Company. | Apr 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - How the East India Company became the worlds most powerful business. | Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Trust - What was the East India Company? | Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Revised media. | Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons - The English East India Company and the Modern Corporation: Legacies, Lessons, and Limitations (PDF). | Apr 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Council for the Social Studies - The East India Company: Agent of Empire in the Early Modern Capitalist Era. | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - The british east india company. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Gresham College - This Imperious Company - The East India Company and the Modern Multinational. | Apr 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - The East India Company: The original corporate raiders. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: UCLA Social Sciences - MANAS - East India Company. | Oct 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Globalsecurity.org - British East India Company. | Aug 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Eastern Illinois University - The East India Company and Their Reasoning for Voyaging to India in the 17th and 18th Centuries. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - East India Company. | Dec 01, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - The East India Company and its role in ruling India. | Apr 03, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Culture - How the East India Company became the world�s most powerful business. | Dec 06, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 23, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cultural India - A Brief History of the British East India Company. | Jan 15, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 27, 2017 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Jan 23, 2017 | ||
| Added a description of the role that slavery played in the East India Company. | Jun 11, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - East India Company (British). | Feb 07, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the East India Company. | Dec 07, 2012 | ||
| Added photograph. | Jan 18, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - British India. | Jan 17, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - How Did The East India Company Change The World? | Nov 04, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - East India Company. | Oct 22, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 08, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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