Definition of british east india company in English English dictionary
A seventeenth-century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantage
British shipping and export company that operated between 1600-1874 and monopolized the trade in Indian goods (known for corruption and its power over the government of British India)
an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny