This company exacerbated an event by using farmland to cultivate opium, causing the Great Bengal Famine.
This organization received proceeds from drug-running at Lintin Island until a crackdown under Lin Zexu sparked a war. This company exacerbated an event by using farmland to cultivate opium, causing the Great Bengal Famine. Several officials of this organization were in the Black Hole of Calcutta after one of its leaders won the Battle of Plassey. Initially the rival of a similar company called the VOC, this organization ceded control of its namesake region to Victoria in 1858. For 10 points, name this English trading company that dealt in opium and tea in China and India.
This organization received proceeds from drug-running at Lintin Island until a crackdown under Lin Zexu sparked a war.
British {East India} Company [or {John} Company; or Company {Bahadur}; accept words like