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concerned mostly with profit is East India Company or British raj
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The East India Company.
Why: the Company was a private, shareholder-owned corporation (chartered in 1600) whose primary purpose was trade and profit. From the mid‑18th century onward it used military force and political control to secure revenue, monopolies and cash crops (e.g., opium, salt, textiles), extract land revenue, and pay dividends to investors.
The British Raj (Crown rule after 1858) was a state administration concerned with political control, stability and imperial interests. It still pursued policies that benefitted Britain economically (taxation, trade rules, raw‑material exports, railways for strategic/commercial use), but it was not a private, profit‑maximizing company like the EIC — its priorities included governance, defense and imperial prestige as well as economic extraction.
If you want, I can give specific examples (Plassey, Permanent Settlement, opium trade, changes after 1857) to illustrate the difference.
Why: the Company was a private, shareholder-owned corporation (chartered in 1600) whose primary purpose was trade and profit. From the mid‑18th century onward it used military force and political control to secure revenue, monopolies and cash crops (e.g., opium, salt, textiles), extract land revenue, and pay dividends to investors.
The British Raj (Crown rule after 1858) was a state administration concerned with political control, stability and imperial interests. It still pursued policies that benefitted Britain economically (taxation, trade rules, raw‑material exports, railways for strategic/commercial use), but it was not a private, profit‑maximizing company like the EIC — its priorities included governance, defense and imperial prestige as well as economic extraction.
If you want, I can give specific examples (Plassey, Permanent Settlement, opium trade, changes after 1857) to illustrate the difference.
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