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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. -- Robert Trout
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. -- Robert Trout
At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water. -- Matthew Stewart
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted. -- Steven Knight
East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now? -- Steven Knight
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted. -- Steven Knight
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. -- Richard Cobden

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