East India Company

2 notes tagged East India Company.

• History

  The Advent of the Europeans in India

  How the Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, French, and English arrived in India as traders, built rival fortified factories, fought the Carnatic Wars, and how the Battle of Plassey and Buxar turned a trading company into the ruler of Bengal.

• History

  British Power: Wellesley to Paramountcy

  How the Mughal collapse opened the door for Wellesley's Subsidiary Alliance and Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse, what each Governor-General from Hastings to Dalhousie actually did, what the Charter Act of 1813 changed, and how paramountcy over the princely states worked in practice.