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The '''East India Company''' (EIC) was also known as the '''Honourable East India Company''' (HEIC), as '''[[John Company]]''', or in India as '''Company Bahadur''' (Hindustani bahādur, "brave")<ref>[http://www.hubert-herald.nl/BhaHEIC.htm Honourable East India Company]. “National Arms and Emblems Past and Present” hubert-herald.nl</ref>. The name '''United East-India Company''' was also used. It was a joint-stock company that was granted an English Royal Charter on December 31, 1600 by Elizabeth I. The British East India Company started out as a commercial trading venture, but grew in strength and eventually virtually ruled India until the [[Indian Mutiny]] in 1857.
==FIBIS Resources==
*[httphttps://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=137&s_id=56 Alphabetical list of Directors of the East India Company from 1758-1858]
*A review by Richard Morgan of the book ''The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858'' by Daniel O’Connor 2012. ''FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012)'', pages 53-54. For details of how to access this article see [[FIBIS Journals]]
*"Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Director of the HEIC" by George Buxton ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 49-50. He lived 1745-1813. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
**[[Maritime Service]]
== External Links links ==
*[https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6833 The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790] a PhD thesis by JG Parker 1977. Edinburgh Research Archive
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Records_within_The_National_Archives_Relating_to_the_East_India_Company Records within The National Archives Relating to the East India Company]
**[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/east-india-company-saltpetre-warehouses-at-ratcliff.html East India Company saltpetre warehouses at Ratcliff] 02 February 2017 British Library Untold lives blog.
**[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_87/surreyac087_095-111_fairclough.pdf "The East India Company and gunpowder production in England, 1625-1636"] by K R Fairclough archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
**[http://www.balh.org.uk/uploads/tlh-downloads/balh-the-local-historian-30-1.pdf "The Isle of Wight and the East India Company 1700–1840: some connections considered"] by James H. Thomas ''The Local Historian, Journal Of The British Association For Local History'' Volume 30, Number 1, February 2000. balh.org.uk
*:[http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/2010s/Vol_68/Thomas.pdf "County, Commerce And Contacts: Hampshire And The East India Company In The Eighteenth Century"] by James H. Thomas ''Proc. Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society '' 68, 2013, 169-177 (Hampshire Studies 2013)
*:James H. Thomas is also the author of ''The East India Company And The Provinces In The Eighteenth Century'', in two volumes.
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/01/the-east-india-company-slaving-voyage-of-nicholas-skottowe.html The East India Company slaving voyage of Nicholas Skottowe] British Library blog Untold Lives 9 January 2012
*[http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/EAco.html The East India Company - a view] www.sscnet.ucla.edu
*[http://www.livemint.com/2012/04/05201057/Blame-the-British-Raj-on-banke.html "Blame the British Raj on bankers: One community played a significant role in helping the British take over the country’s administration"] by Aakar Patel 6 April 2012. livemint.com
*[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders "The East India Company: The original corporate raiders"] by William Dalrymple 4 March 2015 ''The Guardian''.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20191113112053/http://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-east-india-company-20190828-p52lhf "The rise and rise of the East India Company"] by William Dalrymple 5 September 2019 ''Financial Review'', archived link. An extract from ''The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company'' by William Dalrymple.
: Listen to [https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/william-dalrymple-on-the-east-india-company/ William Dalrymple on the East India Company] October 7, 2019 ''History Extra'' Podcast from BBC. How a single London corporation took over the Mughal empire and became a major imperial power.
:Listen to [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/william-dalrymple-british-east-india/11648048 William Dalrymple on the ruthless rise of the British East India Company] Part of the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Commission] radio series ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' , broadcast 4 November 2019.
*[http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160330-the-worlds-most-powerful-corporation "The world’s most powerful corporation"] by Amanda Ruggeri 30 March 2016 bbc.com.
*[http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/files/2013/01/EIC-Bibliography-Final-21.08.14.pdf East India Company Bibliography] “The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 – UCL History” ucl.ac.uk
* Listen to [http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-andrew-phillips/8818328 "The Rise and Fall of the East India Company"], an interview with Andrew Phillips. Part of the ABC [Australian Broadcasting Commission] radio series ''Conversations with Richard Fidler'' , broadcast 24 August 2017. Duration: 50min 11sec. Andrew Phillips is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPVLr4Np0jA&feature=share Episode 1 – The East India Company] [The origins] 6 minute YouTube video. Originates from the website [http://400yearsseries.com 400 Years: Britain & India].
====Maps====
*[https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298421/ ''A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries, with the settlements, factories and territories, explaning [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki> what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal etc. with many remarks not extant in any other map''] c1717- 1720 by Herman Moll, geographer. University of Texas. Also available [https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:cj82ks67n Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library] and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231221936/view National Library of Australia]. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3426425 catalogue description from NLA].
====Historical books online====
*''Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: From Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707-8'' by John Bruce (1810). Google Books: [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s4NAAAAIAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=J84NAAAAIAAJ Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qbYIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3].
*''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as narrated in his journal and correspondence''. Edited by William Foster 1899 [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma03roegoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma00roegoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''The English Factories in India: A Calendar of Documents in the India Office, British Museum and Public Records Office'' by William Foster Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories01fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1618-1621] 1906 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactorie00fostgoog 1622-1623] 1908 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories03fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1624-1629] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories04fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1630-1633] 1910 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories05fostuoft#page/n5/mode/2up 1634-1636] 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories06fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1637-41] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories07fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1642-45] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories08fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1646-1650] 1914 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories09fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1651-1654] 1915 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories10fost#page/n5/mode/2up 1655-1660] 1921 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishfactories11fost#page/n7/mode/2up 1661-1664] 1923'''.''' Volume 12, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206632 1665-1667], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206632 Archive.org mirror versionDLI] 1925 and Volume 13,[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206636 1668-1669], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206636 Archive.org versionDLI] are available as pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, although the author is incorrectly catalogued.:''The English Factories in India'' ... New series by Sir Charles Fawcett. ''vol. 1. The Western Presidency, 1670-1677''. 1936. ''vol. 2. The Eastern Coast and Bengal, 1670-1677''. 1952. ''vol. 3. Bombay, Surat and Malabar Coast 1678-1684''. 1954. ''vol. 4. The Eastern Coast and Bay of Bengal 1678-1684''. 1955. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/84022 Vol I 1670-1677], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84022 Vol I Archive.org version, DLI]; [httphttps://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/handledetails/2015/285593 Vol III]; [http://wwwin.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in285593/handlepage/2015/285595 n3 Vol IVIII Archive.org version, DLI],; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.135647 Vol IV Archive.org version, different fileDLI]. Pdf downloads, [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000870347 HathiTrust Digital Library ] for those with University access, the latter catalogue entry says: In this "new set of volumes...the contents of the records are to be digested into a readable account of Indiathe main events in each year. " *''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series'' edited by W Noel Sainsbury . Archive.organd HathiTrust Digital Library.:[http://www.archive.org/stream/colonialrecordsc02greauoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 East Indies, China and Japan 1513-1616''] 1862, ; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483915?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volumes Volume 3 and 4: East Indies, China and Japan 1617-1621 ''] 1870, [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.00256 Archive.org version]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293006483949?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume 4 East Indies, China and Japan 1622-1624'' are not available online] 1878, [https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep04grea/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc06greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 6 East Indies, China and Persia 1625-1629''] 1884 ; [http://www.archive.org/stream/1964colonialrecordsc08greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 8 East Indies and Persia 1630-1634''] 1892. [v. 1, 5, 7, 9- America and West Indies].
*''A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company'' by Ethel Bruce Sainsbury Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm01sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1635-1639''] 1907 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''1640-1643''] 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1644-1649''] 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1650-1654''] 1913 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm05sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1655-1659'' ] 1916 [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16601663sainuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''1660-1663''] 1922
*''Ledger and Sword; or, The Honourable Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies (1599-1874)'' by Beckles Wilson 1903 [https://archive.org/details/ledgerswordorhon01willuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ledgerandswordo01willgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiatradein00khanuoft ''The East India Trade in the XVIIth century, in its Political and Economic Aspects''] by Shafaat Ahmad Khan 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275926/page/n1/mode/2up ''Chronicles of the The East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1834House: Its History and Associations'' ] by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926William Forster 1924. Five VolumesArchive. Volumes 1org, 2, 3 and 4 are available to read online on the [[Online books#mirror from Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as TIFF images (single pages), or as pdf downloads.: [httphttps://www.newarchive.org/details/dli.ernetcsl.in8935/page/handlen3/2015mode/469930 Volume 12up ''John Company''], [http://wwwby William Foster 1926.newArchive.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/503979 Volume 2] org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (volume no. not cataloguedCSL), [http://wwwDelhi] Digital Repository.new.dli*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1834'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926.ernet.in/handle/2015/469931 Volume 3], [http://www.new.dli.ernetFive Volumes.in/handle/2015/524858 Volume 4], with mirror versions [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80805 Vol. I, Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73362 Vol. III, Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533212 Vol. IV, Archive.org version], originally from Digital Library of India. All volumes are also available as pdf downloads from GIPE Digital Books-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune. Volumes [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23767 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23769 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23770 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23771 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23772 5]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust Digital Library. All volumes are also available online from the The University of British Colombia, including [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373598#p0z-10000r0f: Volume II] and [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0373622#p0z-7r0f: Volume V], but note these may be slow to load, however downloads are available. *[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/503211 ''Commerce And Conquest: The Story Of The Honourable East India Company''] by Claude Lestook Reid, first published 1947. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection. *[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule inIndia''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962. Archive.ernetorg Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India. *[https://archive.dliorg/details/johncompanyatwor0000furb/page/n9 ''John Company at Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late eighteenth century''] by Holden Furber.20151970 reprint of 1948 original edition.503211 Archive.org versionLending Library. Includes the English, [[French]], [[Dutch]], and [[Danish]] East India Companies.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle57461/2015page/57461 n5 ''The Rise And Fall Of The East India Company''] by Ramkrishna Mukherjee 1955. Pdf download Archive.org, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xIRDjWYlaC4C&pg=PA513 ''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-first of March, 1792, to the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794: With an Appendix''] Google Books:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ih8Thtomd74C&pg=PA657 ''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795: With an Appendix''] Google Books:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xqpWo3zcIpYC&pg=PA2651 ''Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Second July, 1806, to the Twenty- Seventh September, 1809: With an Appendix''] Google Books
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