RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 2 From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power

These comprehensive RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 2 From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 2 From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power

→ Aurangzeb was the last of the powerful Mughal rulers, who died in 1707.

→ The Britishers originally came to India as a small trading company but one day they became the masters of a vast empire.

→ Apart from Britishers, Portuguese, Dutch, French, etc. came to India for trade but they did not have much influence.

→ The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugh in 1651.

→ The English company persuaded the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to issue a farman (royal order) granting the company the right to trade duty free.

→ The battle of Plassey took place in 1757 between the British and the nawab of Bengal Sirajuddaulah in which the British won.

→ In 1765, the company got the Diwani of the provinces of Bengal.

→ Company forced die states into a subsidiary alliance, according to this, Indian rulers were not allowed to have their independent armed forces.

→ The British achieved decisive success in the war of 1799 against the state of Mysore and against the Marathas in the war of 1817-19.

→ Lord Dalhousie, on the basis of Doctrine of Lapse, seized many princely states and took them under the company rule.

→ Warren Hastings (1773-1785) introduced several administrative reforms in India.

→ Under the Regulating Act of 1773, a new Supreme Court was established.

→ By 1857 the company came to exercise direct rule over about 63 per cent of the territory and 78 per cent of the population of the Indian subcontinents. Combined with its indirect influence on the remaining territory and population of the country, the East India Company had virtually the whole of India under its control.