Kompanya sa Silangang Indiya

Ang Kagalanggalang na Kompanya sa Silangang Indiya (o Honourable East India Company, East India Trading Company, English East India Company^[1], at minsang British East India Company,^[2]) ay isang magkasamang kompanya (joint) ng mga Ingles na nakipagkalakalan sa Indiya at Tsina. Sila ay unang kompanyang Britanya na naghanap sa East Indies.

1. ↑ Ensiklopedia Britannica 2008, "East India Company"
2. ↑ 1. Ensiklopedya ng Columbia 2007, "East India Company, British" Naka-arkibo 2009-02-12 sa Wayback Machine.. 2. Marx, Karl (25 Hunyo 1853), "The British rule in India", New York Daily Tribune muling nilathala sa Carter, Mia & Barbara Harlow (editors) (2003), Archives of Empire, Raleigh: Palimbagan ng Pamantasan ng Duke, pp. 802, ISBN 0822331640, <http://books.google.com/books?id=13pyxO8o4moC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA117,M1>. Siping nasa wikang Ingles (p. 118): "I do not allude to European despotism, planted upon Asiatic despotism, by the British East India Company, forming a more monstrous combination than any of the divine monsters startling us in the temple of Salsette."