Priyanka Bharali. (7) Plaban Bharadwaj. (16) Jayashree Patgiri. (27) (Group leader) Robin Debnath. (29) Paramita Karmakar(46) Contents... Introduction. About East India Company. Its formation. Foothold in India. Expansion. Military expansion Financial crisis. Legacy. Conclusion. Summary. Introduction. In this presentation we are going to make you more familiar to the English East India Company. We will try to show you their history like- how it was formed, how it became and important part of our Indian history and so on. We hope that after this presentation everyone of you will be able to tell or give a very good idea about the English East India Company. Now lets start our presentation. Hope you will enjoy... About English East India Company. The East India Company (EIC), originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent, North-west frontier province and Baluchistan. Its success in extracting concessions from native rulers eventually led to its de facto control over much of modern India between 1757 and 1858. East India House, London. East India Company Logo.... Company flag. Its formatIon. The Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies. Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. The government owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its own private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions Queen Elizabeth 1 granted permission to trade with India, through a charter. Sir James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601. Foothold in India. Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey The Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in 1612.In 1612, James I instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir to arrange for a commercial treaty that would give the Company exclusive rights to reside and build factories in Surat and other areas. In return, the Company offered to provide the Emperor with goods and rarities from the European market. They also received special privileges from the Mughal emperors in form of Farmans. Jahangir investing a courtier with a robe of honour watched by Sir The Red Dragon fought the Thomas Roe, English ambassador Portuguese at the Battle of to the court of Jahangir at Agra Swally in 1612, and made several from 161518. voyages to the East Indies. Expansion. The East India Company launched a joint effort attack with the Dutch United East India Company on Portuguese and Spanish ships off the coast of China, which helped secure their ports in China. The Company created trading posts in Surat, Madras, Bombay , and Calcutta . By 1647, the Company had 23 factories, and had 90 employees in India. The major factories became the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras, and the Bombay Castle. In 1634, the Mughal emperor extended his hospitality to the English traders to the region of Bengal, and in 1717 completely waived customs duties for the trade. The company's mainstay businesses were by then in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre and tea. In an act aimed at strengthening the power of the EIC, King Charles II provisioned the EIC with the rights to autonomous territorial acquisitions, to mint money, to command fortresses and troops and form alliances, to make war and peace, and to exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the acquired areas. Bombay Castle Military expansion. Robert Clive led company forces against Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal to victory at Battle of plassey in 1757, resulting in the conquest of Bengal. The gradual weakening of the Marathas in the aftermath of the three Anglo-Maratha wars, the British also secured Ganges-Jumna Doab, the Delhi-Agra region etc. Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the rulers of Mysore, offered much resistance to the British forces. Mysore finally fell to the Company forces in 1799, with the death of Tipu Sultan. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 were a period of consolidation for the Company, which began to function more as a nation and less as a trading concern. Army of East India Company... Siraj-Ud-Daulah, was the last independent ruler of Bengal. The Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II, who with his allies fought against the East India Company during his early years (1760 1764). Financial crisis. Though the Company was becoming increasingly bold and ambitious in putting down resisting states, it was getting clearer that the Company was incapable of governing the vast expanse of the captured territories. The Bengal famine of 1770, in which one-third of the local population died, causing distress in Britain. The Bengal Famine of 1770. Coins issued by EIC... Legacy. The East India Company has had a long lasting impact on the Indian Subcontinent. Its armies after 1857 were to become the armies of British India and it played a key role in introducing English as an official language in India. The East India Company introduced a system of merit-based appointments that provided a model for the British and Indian civil service. Conclusion. Therefore, the British entered India as traders but they succeeded in establishing an empire. They ruled India for almost 200 years which finally ended on 15th August 1947. The British completely drained the wealth and other resources of the Indian subcontinent. Summary... Arrival of the Win over Indian British in 1600 Became the de rulers in battles facto rulers of for trade like Battle of different places through a Plassey, Battle of and gained control charter signed Buxar etc. over territories. by Q. Elizabeth.
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