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Hace 2 días · The English East India Company flag changed over time, with a canton based on the flag of the contemporary Kingdom, and a field of 9-to-13 alternating red and white stripes. From 1600, the canton consisted of a St George's Cross representing the Kingdom of England.
Hace 5 días · The East India Company flag in 1801, with its stripes and canton display, Public Domain. To maintain control over such vast territory, employed a standing army of more than 260,000 men, which was more than twice the size of the British army, and almost 75 times the size of the number of its civilian workers, which in 1830 was around 3500 people.
Hace 2 días · The East India Company (HEIC), a British monopoly with a Royal Charter, competed with other European companies to gain influence in Bengal. In 1757 and 1764, the Company defeated the Nawab of Bengal, who acted on Mughal sovereignty, at the Battle of Plassey and the Battle of Buxar, and Bengal came under British influence.
Hace 2 días · The war left the British, under the auspices of the British East India Company, in control of virtually all of present-day India south of the Sutlej River. The famed Nassak Diamond was looted by the company as part of the spoils of the war.
Hace 3 días · Far from being an empire founded on ideas of imperial mission or colonial improvement, the East India Company’s late eighteenth-century regime was ‘an empire of constitutional restoration’ (p. 207), intent on justifying itself in the name of the subcontinent’s – supposed – political past.
Hace 2 días · The distinction is drawn from the fact that the subordinate legislatures have a limited power of making laws. At page 99, he has specifically considered the position of the legislative Council of British India prior to 1915 and stated as follows:– “Laws are made for British India by a Legislative Council having very wide powers of Legislation.
Hace 3 días · East Indies: March 1601. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.
