<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The East India Company very likely evolved into the US entity:
<b>British East India Company flag from 1707:</b>
<img src='http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/0/08/180px-Flag_of_the_British_East_India_Company_(1707).svg.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Grand Union Flag 1775</b>
<img src='http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/usflag/images/grandunion.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Also known as the Continental flag, <b>it is the first true U.S. Flag</b>. It combined the British King's Colours and the thirteen stripes signifying Colonial unity. George Washington liked this design so well that he chose it to be flown to celebrate the formation of the Continental Army on New Years Day, 1776. On that day the Grand Union Flag was proudly raised on Prospect Hill in Somerville, near his headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please note that the British East India Company flag is almost identical to the first flag of the United States. Many US historians explain away the similarity as a coincidence, but it is extremely doubtful that the US rebels and "founding fathers" would copy a flag design in use since 1707 by a powerful British company. The only other explanation is that the British East India Company itself evolved or mutated into the current United States of America.
Indians must further explore these connections since the BEIC is known to have committed horrific crimes against the Indian people as well as sponsored Orientalist discourse against the Indian culture. These findings should also reinforce the fact that the Indian experience with the colonial entity closely parallels the Native American experience with the "United States". <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The so called patriots and rebels who fought for US independence were not political leaders or common people, but a cabal of English traders who did not want to pay tax without having a representation in the British Parliament. And the principal and most powerful English traders were, of course, the EIC!
The Independence of US explains why the Empire formally dissolved the EIC when opportunity presented with the 1857 incidents in India.
The EIC mutated and evolved as a stronger force.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>British East India Company flag from 1707:</b>
<img src='http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/0/08/180px-Flag_of_the_British_East_India_Company_(1707).svg.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Grand Union Flag 1775</b>
<img src='http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/usflag/images/grandunion.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Also known as the Continental flag, <b>it is the first true U.S. Flag</b>. It combined the British King's Colours and the thirteen stripes signifying Colonial unity. George Washington liked this design so well that he chose it to be flown to celebrate the formation of the Continental Army on New Years Day, 1776. On that day the Grand Union Flag was proudly raised on Prospect Hill in Somerville, near his headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please note that the British East India Company flag is almost identical to the first flag of the United States. Many US historians explain away the similarity as a coincidence, but it is extremely doubtful that the US rebels and "founding fathers" would copy a flag design in use since 1707 by a powerful British company. The only other explanation is that the British East India Company itself evolved or mutated into the current United States of America.
Indians must further explore these connections since the BEIC is known to have committed horrific crimes against the Indian people as well as sponsored Orientalist discourse against the Indian culture. These findings should also reinforce the fact that the Indian experience with the colonial entity closely parallels the Native American experience with the "United States". <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The so called patriots and rebels who fought for US independence were not political leaders or common people, but a cabal of English traders who did not want to pay tax without having a representation in the British Parliament. And the principal and most powerful English traders were, of course, the EIC!
The Independence of US explains why the Empire formally dissolved the EIC when opportunity presented with the 1857 incidents in India.
The EIC mutated and evolved as a stronger force.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->