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unusual facts about English East India Company



Ibrahim Iskandar I

The Sultan of the Maldives Ibrahim Iskandar I, was alarmed by the expansion of the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean and by their staunch interest in Cowries and Caries.


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Bengal famine of 1770

In the 17th century the then-English East India Company had been given a grant of the town of Calcutta by the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja.

Henry Gary

Gary was replaced as governor by Gerald Aungier the first English East India Company governor of Bombay.

Jerónimo de Azevedo

Also in 1615 Azevedo led a huge fleet that tried to drive English East India Company ships under the command of Nicholas Downton off Surat, but after a series of engagements he ultimately failed – an incident which demonstrated that Portuguese Goa had lost the capacity to protect its monopoly of trade on the west coast of India.