East India Company was founded in 1600, it is the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, following the 17th-century colonial expansion of the emerging post-colonial countries in order to deal with some things in the colonial regions established institutions, March 20, 1602, Dutch East India Company was established.
East India Company was founded in 1600. Initially, the British East India Company mainly used to do business, and slowly, the British East India Company became a tool of colonialists invaded India. 1613, the British set up in western India's Su Tela trading post soon, but also in the establishment of Madras, India, Southeast Business Center. In 1698, the East India Company to the Indian Mughal government bought the Ganges in the Bay of Bengal ports of Calcutta. Calcutta, the village is small, the effect is very large, around the rich rice, jute, criss-crossing rivers, plains, boundless. East India Company established a trading headquarters here, the Indian food and industrial raw materials, continuously transported back to the UK and gain a huge profit.
Because the East India Company growing strength, and gradually occupied the above-mentioned Madras, Calcutta and Bombay in another city. Here the establishment of three management areas, each with a provincial governor under the jurisdiction of the occupation of these areas into other parts of India to further base.
Plundered the British in India, the Indian people is bound to cause resentment, so the British East India Company in order to more successfully invade other areas, will be in Calcutta's built a huge fortress, which is heavily armed, heavily armed British soldiers, the British India is also actively training to help them fight.
East India Company training of mercenaries, the surface is owned by the Indian feudal princes, but the feudal princes who have been the East India Company's "protection", in fact, for the British service. It is directed by the European officers of the British occupation of India has played a vital role, we can say, without Zhezhi mercenaries, the British could not conquer India.
East India Company - the role of
1, the East India Company to expand Zhang Daying Empire territory.
2, the East India Company colonial plunder, the accumulation of commercial capital.
3, the East India Company's strategy to become a strong anchor. North refers to Afghanistan, the South refers to Southeast Asia, East refers to China.
4, to enhance colonization of the East India Company, a British industrial sales market, support the domestic development of capitalism in order to advance the colonization wave.
5, the East India Company pushed the other European colonial powers.
6, the East India Company rule for the future management of the direct rule of the Imperial Government has accumulated experience.
