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Why did the East India Company fail?

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A number of factors contributed to the end of the East India Company. It acquired control of Bengal on the Indian subcontinent in 1757, and as the company was an agent of British imperialism, its shareholders were able to influence British policy there. This eventually led to government intervention. The Regulating Act (1773) and the India Act (1784) established government control of political policy. The company’s commercial monopoly was broken in 1813, and from 1834 it was merely a managing agency for the British government of India. It lost that role after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In 1873 it ceased to exist as a legal entity.

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