What was the East India Company?
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It was a company started by the british during colonial times. It basically began as a way to import tea from India to England and, ultimately, the rest of the known world. Later, the East India Company became much more powerful. Owning land, influencing politics and then, becoming the de facto "stock market" for all of England (remember, this was when the sun never set on the british empire... it was freakin' huge). The Company pretty much controlled the entire financial markets of britain. Ultimately, it was brought down in a scandal which lead to the formation of the Bourse--which is the first iteration of a controlled stock market like the New York Stock Exchange. Hope this helps.
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The Anglo-Indian community is a distinct minority community originating in India consisting of people of mixed British and Indian ancestry whose native language is English. An Anglo-Indian's British ancestry is bequeathed paternally.\n\nArticle 366(2) of the Indian Constitution defines an Anglo-Indian as "...a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only" [1]. Under this definition, the mestiços (mixed Portuguese and Indian) of Goa are also included.\n\nAnglo-Indians formed a small portion of the minority community in India before independence, but today more live outside India than within. The community has historically been concentrated around towns and cities that were important railway terminals, as a large proportion of them worked in the Indian Railways and the post and telegraph services. Their numbers in India have dwindled significantly as most emigrated to the UK, Australia and New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Canada and the United States.
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main imports were, cotton and tobacco may be this will help.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_England\nGood luck
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East Indians are the people that originate from Asia and American Indians are the people that the Europeans found in America when they settled here.
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16th April, 1853...............The Beginning\n\nThe customary answer to this question is 3:35pm on April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombay's Bori Bunder for Thane, with a 21-gun salute. It was hauled by three locomotives: Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib. The journey took an hour and fifteen minutes.\n\nThat, however, was just the first commercial passenger service in India. In fact, a steam loco, Thomason, had been used for hauling construction material in Roorkee for the Solani viaduct in 1851 (it began working there on 22nd December 1851, to be exact). The Solani viaduct construction was a part of the Ganges Canal project, started in 1845. The viaduct had 15 arches and spanned the 4km-wide Solani valley (about 145km north-east of New Delhi). Earth for the approach embankments was transported along light rail lines about 5 to 10 km long from Piran Kaliyar to Roorkee. Standard gauge wagons were used, built from parts brought over from England, and hauled by men and later horses. In late 1851, the locomotive Thomason (named for the engineer on the project) was assembled on the spot from parts transported from Calcutta. It hauled two wagons at a time, at a speed of about 6km/h. It did not last very long, and after about 9 months India's first steam locomotive died a spectacular death with a boiler explosion, reportedly to the delight of the construction workers who had viewed it more as a hindrance than help. Hughes' book states that this was a six-wheeled tank engine, probably a 2-2-2WT built by E. B. Wilson, and of standard gauge. Some details of the wagons and the use of the locomotive are in Sir Proby T Cautley's "Report on the Ganges Canal Works" (3 volumes, 1860).\n"[The railway is] a triumph, to which, in comparison, all our victories in the East seem tame and commonplace. The opening of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway will be remembered by the natives of India when the battlefields of Plassey, Assaye, Meanee, and Goojerat have become landmarks of history." (The Overland Telegraph and Courier, April 1853)\n\nThe second locomotive to arrive in India was Falkland (named for a governor of Bombay), used by the contractors of the GIPR for shunting operations on the first line out of Bombay that was being built. It began work on February 23, 1852. Hughes' book suggests that this was also built by E. B. Wilson, and was probably a four-wheeled tank engine (0-4-0T?) with dummy crankshaft. It later became GIPR loco #9. A third locomotive, Vulcan, is said to have been used by the GIPR for material hauling and shunting duties in 1852 as well.\n\nThere were also eight more locos from Vulcan Foundry imported by GIPR in 1852 and 1853.\n\nOn November 18, 1852, a locomotive hauled some coaches on a trial run from Bori Bunder to Thana. This probably counts as the first "real" train to run in India. \n\nThe idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats, first occurred to Mr. George Clark the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.\n\nThe formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm, "amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns."\nThe first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, to cover a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, initiating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent.\n\nIn South India, the first line was opened on Ist July 1856, by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles. In the North, 119 miles of line was laid from Allahabad to Kanpur on the 3rd March 1959. The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment
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OK, I'm out of the loop. What is sensex?
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What was once known as GREAT BRITAIN
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yes, go to Plymouth and look it up.\nMiles made a contract with all the people on the Mayflower. \nthis is history and easy to look up
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there is a great book to read about this:\n\nthe city at the center of the world\n\nessentially, the duke of york, the king of england's  brother, thought that controlling the port of new amsterdam would be advantageous to english colonial aspirations and business.  he sailed a navy and army there and the dutch settlers refused to help governor peter stuyvesant fight the english because stuyvesant had been such a tyrant.\n\nthe english took over and changed the name to new york, after the duke of york.  hopefully someone will come along and provide you with more details.
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I think it was India, or somewhere like that
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I believe it relates to the time when India was part of the British Empire.  Elephants were and are used as farm animals but were also used at events and celebrations.
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THE ENGLISH BROUGHT CRICKET IN INDIA WHEN THEY RULED US.\nAT THAT TIME MANY 'MAHA RAJAH'S ADMINISTRATING THEIR PROVINCES WITH COURTESY OF ENGLISH RULERS.\nTHEY TOO PLAYED WITH ENGLISH MEN.\nMAHARAJAH 'RANJIT SINGH' WAS A FAMILIAR FRIEND OF BRITISH RULERS.\nRANJI TROPHY IS NAMED AFTER HIS LOVE ON CRICKET.
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Cotton was a big one.  I imagine sugar too, since that's where it comes from.  Lets not forget tea.  Spices of course.  Precious jewels, art, artifacts, etc.  Workers; Indian laborers were sent all over the commonwealth.
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As known, the Hindies were mainly captured by the British - Portuguese, Spaniards, etc., had some minor regions.\nWhenever the British are forced out of a place, they have always created such a situation that there is a chaos! \nSimilarly, when India was free and independent, the state was cut in three: India, Pakistan (West and East: known as Bangladesh).\nThe reason "discovered" was religious freedom! But still, in India there are millions of Muslims who either chose or did not get the proximity to fleet!\nIt is sad to see the two nation competing in a wild manner!
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India, China, Phillipines, Dubai
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Firstly, when you're referring to British people as with a noun, they're Britons. Secondly, 'invaded' is the wrong tense to use here. You should use simple infinitive tense 'invade' as 'did' carries the past tense meaning in this instance.\n\nThe Britons arrived in India in 1600, as the British East India Company. At that time there was no political entity called India. The  subcontinent was comprised of a number of smaller, dissociated kingdoms. The British were, in fact, responsible for unifying India into a nation-state, but that did not happen until much later. There was no singular 'invasion' of India, but instead a series of negotiations (which did often escalate in to small wars) that the British East India Company initiated to claim trading territory. \nThe article below offers more detail.
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Politicians and there money is all a mirage, they are worse than the East India Company and most of them  shud be kicked hard on their asses