East India
2
4.9
- proper noun
- Archaic
:
India Oriental
- Unfortunately for Kidd, the British government had a good relationship with the Mogul through the British East India Company, which did big business with the Mogul.
- East India Company
- Dutch East India
- British East India
Examples
-
When James Brookes, then a young English officer with the East India Company, arrived in Borneo in 1839, the Sultan sought his help to put down the rebellion.
Academic text (2007) -
The British East India Company resisted direct support for missionary projects.
Academic text (1996) -
Passengers on the great merchantmen of the East India Company were expected to supply their own furniture.
Fiction book (2002) -
As an example, he discusses the Indian involvement in the rise of the East India Company.
Academic text (2004) -
All this contributed to a surplus of unsold tea, putting the East India Company in financial difficulties.
Blog text (11) -
Trade with India consisted mainly of native products on both sides, the East India Company's export of British goods to Iran being very small.
Academic text (1993) -
So what really irked the colonists was the government bailout of the East India Company and the cronyism of the tea consignees.
Blog text (11) -
In order to try to reverse their silver outflow, the British, through the East India Company, devised a plan to grow opium in their Indian colonies and export it to China.
Academic text (2008) -
The Wealth of Nations has long "structural" analyses of why the monopolistic practices of the British East India Company benefited neither Britain as a whole nor India: "Such exclusive companies... are nuisances in every respect," Smith concludes.
Academic text (1994) -
The East India Company played a significant role in trade during the colonial period.
Synonyms
1
5.0
A group of islands between Asia and Australia, including Indonesia, historically named by Europeans
A group of islands in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines, between Asia and Australia
Surface Forms
Morphology
East + India
While the constituents 'East' and 'India' signal a directional/regional sense, the historical meaning referring to the East Indies (Malay Archipelago) is a specific proper‐noun usage not predictable from the parts and can be confused with 'eastern India' or simply 'the eastern part of India'. A B1 learner who knows the words would therefore be unlikely to derive the precise historical/geographic referent without prior exposure.
Etymology
East India comes from old European mapmakers who used the words east and India to describe the islands to the east of India. That's why the name came to mean the group of islands between Asia and Australia.