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Paid servant of East India company was "Gomastha". They were appointed by the company to contact with local dealers and weavers and contact them in such away that the dealer force to deal with the company and sell their products to the company. For this work, Gomastha were paid.
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies (Maritime Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonized parts of Southeast Asia, and colonized Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.