East India Company
- a trading company formed in 1600 to develop commerce in the newly colonized areas of SE Asia and India. In the 18th century it took administrative control of Bengal and other areas of India, and held it until the British Crown took over in 1858 in the wake of the Indian Mutiny.东印度公司（成立于1600年, 为了在东南亚及印度这些新殖民地发展贸易的贸易公司; 18世纪取得了对印度孟加拉等地区的控管权, 直至1858年印度反英暴动之后才将权力移交给不列颠王国政府）。