For 10 points, name this company that founded Hong Kong, caused the Opium Wars, and was victimized in the Boston Tea Party.
An early leader, Thomas Roe, gained the right to establish a factory at Surat in 1615.  Popularly known as the John Company, it ceased to exist after 1873.  Generally excluded from their namesake region after the Amboina Massacre of 1623, it acquired Bengal in 1757 and governed the territory from a Court of Proprietors until the Regulating Act and Pitt's India Act gave control of political policy to the government.  For 10 points, name this company that founded Hong Kong, caused the Opium Wars, and was victimized in the Boston Tea Party.
An early leader, Thomas Roe, gained the right to establish a factory at Surat in 1615.  
British East India Company