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OUR PRESENTATION

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Special thanks to our
honorable course teacher
Assistant Professor Md Obaidul Haque

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GROUP MEMBERS

• Md Billal Goni • Moriom Islam

• Tonima Khatun • Shamim Ahammed
• Ramkrishna Chowdhury • Tonu Khatun
• Md Razwan Islam • Jannatul Ferdaus
• Anamika Khatun • Tania Khatun
• Rashim Islam

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PRESENTATION ON
THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

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Outline
1. Introduction. 8. Events.
2. Why Was the East India 9. Robert Clive.
Established? 10. Battle Of Plassey.
3. British East India Company. 11. Indian Rebellion (Revolt) of 1857.
4. Arrival in India. 12. The End of the East India Company and
5. Colonization . the 1857 Revolt.
6. Expansion. 13. Conclusion.
7. Commercial.

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 INTRODUCTION
The British East India company was an English Company formed for the
exploration of trade with east and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by
Royal Charter on December 31, 1600. It was started as a monopolistic trading
body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.
The British East India company imported a wide variety of goods from Asia
including Tea, Silk, Cotton, Salt, indigo etc. The company became so big and so
powerful that it accounted for up to half of the trade conducted in the entire
world in the 1700s and 1800s. The company itself would control much of India
and would maintain an army of more than 26000 soldiers more than twice the
size of the British army.

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WHY WAS
THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY ESTABLISHED ?
The East India Company was initially created in 1600 to
serve as a trading body for English merchants, specifically
to participate in the East Indian spice trade. It later added
such items as cotton, silk, indigo, saltpeter, tea, and opium
to its wares and also participated in the slave trade. The
company eventually became involved in politics and acted
as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early
1700s to the mid-1800s.

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 THE BRITISH
EAST INDIA COMPANY
• First it was called Honorable East India Company (HEIC).
• An early joint stock company, which was granted an English Royal Charter
by Elisabeth I. On December 31, 1600.
• Queen Elisabeth granted the monopoly rights to bring goods from India.
• The Royal Charter gave the newly created HEIC a 21 monopoly on all
trade in the East Indies.
• The Company had 125 shareholders, and a capital of 72,000 pound.

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 ARRIVAL IN INDIA
Arrival of the British and the establishment of East India
Company was the outcome of the Portuguese traders who
earn enormous profit by selling their merchandise in India.
In 1612 AD British East India company established
factories in Surat with the permission of Emperor Jahangir.
They continued their trading activity for a few years from
here and later on expanded their area to Chennai, Mumbai
and Calcutta.

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COLONIZATION
Colonizing India supplied Europe with Raw Materials:
• Sugar
• Tea
• Poppies
• Cotton
• Silk
Markets for Exports.
This exchange linked the economies, cultures and people
of India and Britain.

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 EXPANSION

• First Expansion was in 1639 at Chennai.

• Sir Francis Day along with the company established a
Trading Post and St. George fort.
• In 1668 The Islands of Mumbai was leased to the British
as dowry by the Portuguese.
• Coastal area provided strategic importance to the
Company's trade

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 COMMERCIAL

• The East India Company wasn't concerned about the local

needs.
• Its main aim was to make profits.
• A large chunk of the profits went to the Queen.
• Thus, it's commercial motive made it a successful business
enterprise.

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 Events:

• Battle of Plassey
• Battle of Buxar
• Anglo-Maratha Wars
• Revolt of (1857)

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ROBERT CLIVE

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Robert Clive
The foundations of the British empire in India were, it is said, laid by Robert Clive, known to
his admirers as the " Conqueror of India ". Clive first arrived in India in 1743 as a civil servant
of the East India Company. He later transferred to the military service of the Company and
returned to England in 1753, where he able to follow a comfortable life style. But his penchant
for extravagance and ostentatious displays of wealth, just as much as his electoral loss in his
attempt to gain a seat in the House of Commons, opened him to the attacks of his creditors and
political opponents. He arrived in India in 1756 and at once secured the British forces in
Madras. He then moved to Calcutta, which had been captured by the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-
ud-daulah , and early in 1757 he recaptured Bengal. Later that year, on June 23rd, he defeated
the Nawab, largely by means of bribes, at the so called " Battle of Plassey ".

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BATTLE OF PALASSY:
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the
British over the Nawab of Bengal and his French East
India Company allies on 23 June 1757, under the
leadership of Robert Clive, which was possible due to
the defection of Mir Jafar, who was Nawab Siraj-ud-
Daulah's commander in chief. The battle helped the
Company seize control of Bengal. Over the next
hundred years, they seized control of most of the
Indian subcontinent, Burma, and Afghanistan.

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INDIAN REBELLION (Revolt) of 1857

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 Indian Rebellion (Revolt) of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of
the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the
British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of
the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi. It
then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain
and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. The
rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region, and was contained
only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858. On 1 November 1858, the British
granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the
hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. Its name is contested, and it is
variously described as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the
Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence.

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THE END OF THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY AND THE 1857 REVOLT

Due to the company rule, there was growing dissatisfaction among the Indians and British
rule had to face the struggle of 1857. The Great Indian rebellion of 1857 and the
termination of East India Company rule over India just a year later thus ushered in a new
face of British imperialism in Asia. The end of the East India Company’s regime meant
that, at last, the British state had to accept unequivocal responsibility for the governments
of former company possessions. Consequently, new governing institutions were established
in Asia, which were directly answerable to the government and parliament in London,
through the secretary of state for India and India office. East India Company lost its
administrative powers and the administration was taken over by the British government.

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 CONCLUSION
From the above discussion we analyze, The British East India Company
transformed from being an association of traders to becoming the political
administrator of India. What began in 1756 as a risk migration strategy against
the inaction of politics unconducive to the company's trade by belligerent Indian
rulers, rapidly evolved into an all-out expansion strategy across India motivated
by the economic gains from a new stream of revenues. Such measures created
widespread discontentment against the company, which culminated into the
revolt of 1857 that marked the end of the British East India Company's rule in
India.

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