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Source: East India Company (disambiguation)

East India Company is a general term, referring to a number of European trading companies established in the early modern era to establish trade relations with and subsequently political control over the Indian subcontinent, the Indonesian archipelago and the neighbouring lands in Southeast Asia. They would include:

British East India Company (1600–1874)
Dutch East India Company (1602–1799)
Danish East India Company (1616–1650), re-established 1670–1729
Portuguese East India Company (1628–1633)
Genoese East India Company (1649–1650)
French East India Company (1664–1769), re-established 1785–1794
Swedish East India Company (1731–1813)
Austrian East India Company (1776–1781)