The management of India by the East India Company became the embryonic form of British civil service system.

18 13 after the monopoly position of the company was broken, the company gradually separated from the trading business.

1857 After the Indian national uprising, the company also handed over its management affairs to the British government, and India became a British crown colony.

/kloc-In the 1960s, all the company's properties in India were delivered to the government. The company only helps the government to engage in the tea trade (especially with St. Helena). After the dividend redemption act of the East India Company came into effect, the company was dissolved on June 1 874+1October1. The Times commented: In human history, it has accomplished tasks that no company has undertaken, and may not undertake in the future.

1, expanding the territory of the British Empire.

2. Colonial plunder and commercial capital accumulation.

3. The strategic position refers to Afghanistan in the north, Southeast Asia in the south and China in the east. Become a strong strategic support point.

4. Deepening colonization, becoming the sales market of British industrial products, supporting the development of domestic capitalism, thus promoting the colonial wave.

5. Crowding out other colonial powers in Europe.

6. The rule of the East India Company accumulated experience for the direct rule and management of the imperial government in the future.

The East India Company is different from today's multinational companies. The East India Company got it from its own government.

The headquarters building of the East India Company in Britain.

Colonial institutions with exclusive trade rights, the army (including the fleet), set up government agencies in the colonies, carried out cruel political rule and economic plunder on the colonies, and even sold slaves and drugs. They came into being and existed from the end of16th century to the first half of19th century, and played an important role in the primitive accumulation of capitalism in various countries.

/kloc-at the end of 0/6/kloc-at the beginning of 0/7, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and other countries established the East India Company in India, Indonesia, Malaya and other places in the Eastern Hemisphere.

As for why they were all named "East India Company", this is related to Columbus mistaking America for India and spreading it everywhere. 1492, Columbus sailed to the West Indies in today's Central America, mistaking it for India and mistaking the indigenous people for Indians (today, the American indigenous people are also called Indians, which is the same word as the Indian in English). Later, people found out that they were wrong (Columbus himself refused to admit that he was wrong until his death), but they were still wrong. They called the real India (even some Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia) "East India" and the islands in the American Caribbean "West India", hence the names of these colonial companies.

Why did Holland, Britain and France set up the East India Company in the Eastern Hemisphere? This is because in the17-18th century, these three countries were the main colonial countries in the world (and Spain, but it mainly expanded in the western hemisphere), and their competition in the eastern hemisphere was particularly fierce. Competing to establish the East India Company is an important manifestation and means of their competition. In the end, Britain won, and the British East India Company was also the most famous.

With the development and gradual completion of the industrial revolution, free competition and free trade have become the strong demands of the emerging industrial bourgeoisie. This privileged company has not adapted to the requirements of the further development of capitalism. /kloc-In the middle of the 0/8th century, the East India Company was dissolved by various governments.