Question

How was India brought under the reign of England?

Answer 1

With the purpose of initiating business with India, the East India Company was set up in England in the year 1600. The company started to dabble in Indian politics as the Mughal rule began to show the signs of decline with intra-dynasty conflict cropping up after the death of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. 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. Three battles were fought and in the third battle (1766) England defeated the French army at Wandiwash in Tamil Nadu. As a result, there came into being a commercial domination of Britain and its imperial roots got deeper into the Indian soil. The British victory in the battle of Plassey in 1757 and the battle of Buxar in 1764 paved a way for the inception of the English rule in India. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1839, the quarrels among the successors of the Sikh empire became advantageous for the British. The England won the vast region under the Sikh Empire between 1845 mid 1849. Lord Dalhousie undertook the mission of merging the princely states into the British Raj by rejecting the adopted successors in Jhansi, Nagpur, Satan, Sambhalpur, and Udaipur. Thus, in hundred years between 1757 and 1857, England had almost the entire India under its total governance.