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East India Company
The
East India Company
(
EIC
), also known as the
Honourable East India Company
and informally as
John Company
, was an
English
and later
British
joint-stock company
, formed to pursue trade with the
East Indies
, but which ended up trading mainly with the
Indian subcontinent
and
Qing China
.
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