1)
With the purpose of initiating
business with India, the East India Company was set up by British in the year 1600.
2)
In 1615, the East India Company was permitted to erect a business
centre in Surat by Badshaha Jahangir.
3)
The East India Company started to
dabble in Indian Politics as the Mughal rule began to show the signs of decline
with intra dynasty conflict cropped up after the death of Badshaha Aurangzeb.
4)
In the Karnataka region, there
sprung up a conflict between the bickering business affairs between England and
France on one hand, and the politics at the court of the Nawab.
5)
There were three battles fought
between England and France.
6)
In the third battle, in the year 1760, England defeated the French army
at Wandiwash in Tamil Nadu.
7)
As a result, there came into being
a commercial domination of Britain and its imperial roots got deeper into the
Indian soil.
8)
The British victory in the battle
of Plessey in 1757 and the battle of
Buxar in 1764 paved a way for the inception of the English rule in India.
9)
After the defeat of the Marathas,
barring the Sikh region, there had not seen left even a single local ruler
throughout the length and the width of India.
10)
After the death of the Maharaja
Ranjit Singh in 1839, the quarrels among the successors of the Sikh empire
became an advantage for the British.
11)
The England won the vast region
under the Sikh Empire between 1845 and 1849.
12)
Lord
Dalhousie undertook the mission of merging the local princely
states into the British Raj by
rejecting the adopted successors in Zansi, Nagpur, Satara, Sambalpur, and
Udaipur.
13)
Thus, in the hundred years between
1757 and 1857, England had almost the entire regions of India under its total
governance.
