East India Company (disambiguation)

East India Company is a general term, referring to a number of European trading companies established in the early modern era to establish trade relations and subsequently political control over the Indian subcontinent, the Indonesian archipelago and the neighboring lands. They would include:

• The British East India Company (1600–1874)
• The Dutch East India Company (1602–1799)
• The Danish East India Company (1616–1650) again re-established (1670–1729)
• The Portuguese East India Company (1628–1633)
• The Genoese East India Company (1649–1650)
• The Swedish East India Company (1731–1813)
• The French East India Company (1664–1769) again re-established (1785–1794)
• The Austrian East India Company (1776–1781)

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