A old document containing the oath of fidelity to the East India Company also known as EIC), the Honourable East India Company, HEIC, East India Trading Company, EITC, the British East India Company, or informally as the John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company. It originally traded as Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies and traded cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium. It began trading circa 1600 and was absorbed by the British Indian government in 1858.

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