July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Partly-printed Document datelined “East-India House, London 17th March 1815” and reads “Mr. James Coggan is sorry to acquaint Elizabeth Johnston...that it appears by the Returns of the East India Company’s Troops, that James Johnston who went out as a Recruit in the Ship Airly Castle to Bengal in the year 1807, died...” with integral address to Mrs. Johnston in Scotland. Good condition. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The Company also came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions, to the exclusion, gradually, of its commercial pursuits; it effectively functioned as a megacorporation. Company rule in India, which effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey, lasted until 1858, when, following the events of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and under the Government of India Act 1858, the British Crown assumed direct administration of India in the new British Raj. The Company itself was finally dissolved on 1 January 1874, as a result of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act.
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