Do you think its handling of situations in India caused the British East India Company to have problems in ...

Question

Do you think its handling of situations in India caused the British East India Company to have problems in Colonial America? (ie. The Boston Teaparty?)

(This isn't homework for a student, so don't tell me, "Do your own homework." I'm legitimately curious.)

"The British East India Company had controlled all tea trading between India and the British colonies. As a result of the tea tax, the colonies refused to buy the British tea. Instead, they smuggled tea in from Holland. This left the British East India Company with warehouses full of unsold tea, and the company was in danger of going out of business.
The British government was determined to prevent the British East India Company from going out of business. It was going to force the colonists to buy their tea. In May 1773, Prime Minister North and the British parliament passed the Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists, bypassing the colonial wholesale merchants. This allowed the company to sell their tea cheaper than the colonial merchants who were selling smuggled tea from Holland."

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/TeaParty.htm#Events

Their products WERE sold in the colonies.

Answer 1

The Boston Tea Party was in the 1770s. Plassey, in which Clive pretty much took over India was in 1757, only ~20 years later, and that was only the beginning of the taking of control of India. It probably had little effect. Also, the British East India Company did not operate in North America.

In response to the addendum, the tea industry in India did not start until after about 1820. Until then, tea was imported from China.

Answer 2

I am British but I know that the Brits are a despicable rapacious and cruel race. Their leaders - royalty - enslaved and brought despair to the majority of the world. They still crow about how brilliant they are. Slavery and every sort of vice - murder, robbery - was their bill of fare. They have nothing, nothing to be proud of. That America severed the bonds is to Americas credit.