East India Company (EIC) was a joint-stock company. Its headquarters were in London. It was started for trading with the East Indies, but mostly traded with India and China. It was given a charter in 1600. It traded many things in India. In the middle 18th century, the company built up its own presidency armies and won the Battle of Plassey. This brought it from trading with India to ruling India. It was dissolved in 1874.