East India Company
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Christropher Colombus , was on a conquest to find Japan and had actually gone westwards from Spain , and what he discovered was actually Cuba in the West Indies and he had thought that Cuba was the Indian name for Japan.
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It was the corporal partnership of The British and East Indies and India
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The East Indies usually refers to Indonesia. Historically it was India, now it sometimes is used to refer to Southeast Asia.
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The East Indies stretches over 3,800 miles along both sides of the equator. The East Indies includes all of the mainland of Southeast Asia and India.
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The moved into India to trade spices with the people of the East Indies
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It was formed to trade between britain and the east indies, but later was primarily concerned with the indian sub-continent and china
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The term "Indian" comes from Christopher Columbus mistakenly believing that he had arrived in the East Indies when he landed in the Americas. The term has historically been used to refer to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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prussia, india, west indies, east indies , north america, canada, philippines,
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East indies
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Europe mainly obtained spices from India and the East Indies.
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No countries competed for the East India Company; it was British and never for sale. But other countries traded - sometimes through 'East Indies' companies of their own - with India and competed with the East India Company, such as the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch.
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They were looking for a shorter route to India and China.
They made landfall in the west indies in an attempt to find the western passage through to the east indies. It was an accident which became profitable.
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The Indian Ocean is east of India. More specifically, the Bay of Bengal is located on the eastern edge of India.
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A babiroussa is a hog-like quadruped found in the East Indies, also known as the Indian hog.
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No, it is not. India has the Arabian Sea to the west, and the Bay of Bengal to the east, with the Indian Ocean to the south.
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the arabs
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No, chrish gayle is not playing for India he will play for west indies and always play for west indies cricket team.
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The West Indies got its name as a result of Christopher Columbus' ingnorance. Columbus believed that he had discovered a new route to Asia and when he saw the amerindians he thought they was in India and they were India. however he was miles away from Indian and the east Indians he was in the west. this resulted in the west indies getting its name
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Indonesia was a Dutch colony that's suited in the east of the Indian Ocean until their independence in August 1945
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Indonesia was a Dutch colony that's suited in the east of the Indian ocean until their independence in August 1945
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the company defeated Indian troops at the battle of plassay
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first modern MNC in the world was East India Company .. founded in 1600 London under the name Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies
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When Columbus sailed West from Europe, he was looking for a faster route to India (he believed the world was round). He thought he had landed in India when they landed in the Caribean. Thus, the West Indies.
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The British East India Company
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India, at least a part of it. In the days of the East India Company around half of Indian territory remained under the power of sovereign Indian princes. Although the East India Company often had much influence there, they did not formally govern those territories.
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The East India Company first came to India as traders and seeked the permission of the emperor to carry on trade. It gradually took the advantage of weak political situations, fighting princes and instable rule to take over India and rule over it for over 200 years.
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East Indian usually refers to the Roman Catholic ethnic group in the Mumbai/Bombay area. Indian refers to those from anywhere in India.
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It takes approximately 18 hours to get from India to the West Indies. India is about 8788 miles from the West Indies.
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The Dutch East Indies. The Dutch East Indies.
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There are two 'Indies'. The West Indies (Caribbean) and the East Indies (South and Southeast Aisa).
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The Indian Ocean is between Africa and India.
So you would have to cross the Indian Ocean to get to India or Africa!:)
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China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, and the East Indies.
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He thought he reached India, but he reached the Indies. That's why they're called the Indies, I think.
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