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3.3.2 British conquest and expansion notes

8 notes, in reading order.

  1. 3.3.2.1Bengal Nawabs and the Battle of Plassey 1757

    At Plassey on 23 June 1757 the Company, helped by a conspiracy among the Nawab's own leaders, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah and made Mir Jafar a Nawab who depended on British arms.

    Standard · 5 min · Full course
  2. 3.3.2.2Battle of Buxar and the Treaty of Allahabad 1765

    Mir Qasim tried to free Bengal from Company control; his defeat with Awadh and the Mughal emperor at Buxar (1764) led to the Treaty of Allahabad and the grant of the Diwani to the Company (1765).

    Standard · 4 min · Full course
  3. 3.3.2.3Dual government in Bengal and its consequences

    From 1765 to 1772 the Company held the power (the revenue and the army) while the Nawab held the responsibility (law and order); the result was misrule and the great famine of 1770.

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  4. 3.3.2.4Anglo-Mysore wars: Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan

    Four wars (1767–99) broke the power of Mysore under Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, who died defending Seringapatam in 1799.

    Standard · 5 min · Full course
  5. 3.3.2.5Anglo-Maratha wars

    Three wars (1775–82, 1803–05, 1817–19) ended the Maratha confederacy, and in 1818 the Peshwa was removed and pensioned.

    Standard · 4 min · Full course
  6. 3.3.2.6Ranjit Singh and the Anglo-Sikh wars

    Ranjit Singh built a strong Sikh kingdom in the Punjab; after his death in 1839 the state weakened, and two wars (1845–46 and 1848–49) ended in annexation under Dalhousie.

    Standard · 4 min · Full course
  7. 3.3.2.7Subsidiary Alliance and the Doctrine of Lapse

    Wellesley's Subsidiary Alliance (1798–1805) turned Indian rulers into dependants who paid for British troops, and Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse (1848–56) annexed states without a natural heir.

    Standard · 4 min · Full course
  8. 3.3.2.8Frontier wars: Anglo-Burmese, Anglo-Afghan and the annexation of Sindh

    British expansion beyond the Indian heartland went into Nepal, Burma, Afghanistan and Sindh, driven by trade, security and fear of Russia.

    Standard · 4 min · Full course

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