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The rise and fall of the East India Company
Questions and answers about the East India Company.
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How India Finally Won a 200-year Fight for Independence
In August 1947 British rule ended on the Indian subcontinent.
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Painting of East India Company ships
At the end of 1773 ships like these arrived in Boston Harbor. The ships, which belonged...
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An official of the East India Company in procession
Surrounded by Indians, a colonial official of the British East India Company moving...
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East India House
The East India Company headquarters were in East India House in London.
Yale Center for British Art (Paul Mellon Collection; accession no. B2001.2.1001)
East India House, London
The East India House in Leadenhall Street, London, drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd,...
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1977.14.17466)