单词 | dutch east india company |
释义 | > as lemmasDutch East India Company East India Company n. a company formed to conduct trade with India and South-East Asia; spec. the English trading company incorporated in 1600; similarly the Dutch East India Company, incorporated in 1602. The East India Company, described in its charter as ‘The Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies’, administered British possessions in India from 1773 until the government was assumed by the Crown in 1858. For further information on the Company see, for example, P. Lawson The East India Company: a history (1998).extracted from East Indian.< as lemmas |
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