History of Early Phase of British India

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The East India Company began establishing trading posts in India in 1600. The English East India Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was later formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing between 1858 and 1947. Company rule in India was the rule or dominion of the British East India Company over parts of the Indian subcontinent. By 1818, with the defeat of Marathas followed by the pensioning of the Peshwa and the annexation of his territories, British supremacy in India was complete. The Policy of Ring Fence or Buffer state, British Administration in India however stood in somewhat stark contrast against anti-Indian British law and order. With the arrival of Lord Wellesley to India, the stringent motive of the Company was pretty reduced, with petty states like Oudh, Hyderabad and Mysore acceding to British pressure. This important book is a historical overview of beginning period of British Raj in India. Students and researchers will find this book useful in their study and work.

Keshav Dalavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at T. N. B. College, Bhagalpur, A constituent unit of T. M. B. University, Bhagalpur. He obtained his matriculation to post graduation with first division. He also got bachelor in library and he has fifteen years experience as librarian.

British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies-colonies, protectorates, and other territories-that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government. The policy of granting or recognizing significant degrees of self government by dependencies, which was favoured by the far-flung nature of the empire, led to the development by the 20th century of the notion of a "British Commonwealth. comprising largely self-governing dependencies that acknowledged an increasingly symbolic British sovereignty. The term was embodied in statute in 1931. Today the Commonwealth includes former elements of the British Empire in a free association of sovereign states. Great Britain made its first tentative efforts to establish overseas settlements in the 16th century. The East India Company began establishing trading posts in India in 1600. The English East India Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was later formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

Company rule in India was the rule or dominion of the British East India Company over parts of the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey which saw the Company conquest of Mughal Bengal. Later, the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, or in 1773, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance. By 1818, with the defeat of Marathas followed by the pensioning of the Peshwa and the annexation of his territories, British supremacy in India was complete. The East India Company was a private company owned by stockholders and reporting to a board of directors in London. Originally formed as a monopoly on trade, it increasingly took on governmental powers with its own army and judiciary.

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