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British East India Company: British India
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Unfortunately the British East india Company rupee dated 1840 depicting the lovely head of a young Queen Victoria didn't arrive quite in time for last week's blog posting. But such an attractive coin deserves a blog of it's own.
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The area included in the present state was ceded to the British East India Company in 1803. In 1832 it was transferred to the then North-Western Provinces, and in 1858 Haryana became a part of Punjab, remaining as such after the partition of India in 1947. The demand for a Haryana state... was raised even before India's independence in 1947. Lala Lajpat Rai and Asaf Ali,...
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A military man, Robert Clive was a strong administrator and empire builder, eventually becoming the main representative of the British East India Company in India. Two years prior to the writing of this letter, Clive had triumphantly led 3,000 British soldiers against a Mughal-led army that was ten times as large at the Battle of Plassey. This battle was instrumental in establishing English power in India.
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Officials of the rapacious British East India Company appear as villains in Robert Lawson's children's book Captain Kidd's Cat (1956). They ... appeared in the 2006 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, despite the film being set in the West Indies.
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At the point of time when the East India Company (henceforth referred to as EIC) came into being, there was some major political unrest in the country. The once-powerful Mughals had now shrunk to a tiny and badly ruled kingdom. Although the country was once completely ruled by the Mughals, due to the irresponsibility of the great rulers' coming generations, the country had been split up into many small kingdoms ruled by different royal families.
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The latest issue of Flagmaster has a short article about the flags of the British East India Company. One of the illustrations shows the EIC flag with the post-1800 union and the St. George's cross on top of the stripes. The text says that the St. George's cross version was adopted about 1801 when the Company established its force of armed cruisers, and was discontinued in 1824. Perrin (p. 131, fn 3) says that this flag was introduced "about 1820," and that it was not used as an ensign after 1824, although it was still used as a jack or signal flag. He does not indicate that it was used only by the armed vessels.
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