1600 65438+On February 3 1 day, Queen Elizabeth I granted the company the privilege and royal franchise to trade in India. In fact, the Charter gave East India a trade monopoly for 265,438+0 years.
With the passage of time, the East India Company changed from a commercial trading enterprise to the de facto ruler of India. It also gained auxiliary rule and military functions until 1858 was revoked administrative power.
The East India Company is one of the earliest joint-stock companies in the world, so the company distributes dividends to each member to ensure income. Although, on the surface, major foreign trade companies have completed the integration, in fact, the seemingly commercial war has turned into infighting, and shareholders are still making endless calculations. However, the vicious competition has stopped, the income of the East India Company has been guaranteed, and the Dutch government enjoys tax revenue, so it will naturally not interfere in the internal conflicts of the East India Company.
Unlike the colonial rule of Portugal and Spain, the East India Company did not need to resort to religious feelings or spend a lot of money. This profit-oriented business model makes the East India Company destined to become the economic hegemon that dominates the Indian Ocean. In addition, the East India Company is divided into five departments according to its business areas, and all its business activities are carried out at its headquarters in Amsterdam.
There are differences in Indian history. Even during the Peacock Dynasty, the United States was in northern India, and now the whole Indian region has not been unified. Apart from the late Peacock Dynasty and the Middle Ages in the West, the Mughal Empire was established in India after the demise of the Yuan Dynasty in China, which is also a powerful empire. So in the16th century, India was a divided feudal country with many Indian tribes. As long as the East India Company is still training mercenaries, these mercenaries obviously belong to the feudal princes of India, but these feudal princes are controlled by the East India Company.
It can be said that Britain could not conquer India without the East India Company. The East India Company's crazy colonial plunder in India is to deal with those backward tribes through this army, and the natural unity of tribes is the unity of India! In fact, India is being destroyed by a company unconsciously.