Imperialism And India

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the British government also gave the company the
right to make was or peaceful arrangements with powers who were non-Christian.
This control expanded with the founding of a port at Bombay in 1668, and the
founding of Calcutta in 1690. Then in 1756, a young employee named Robert Clive,
who had been named lieutenant-governor in 1755, was sent to take back Calcutta
from the Bengal nawab. He accomplished this in January of 1757. Then later
that year, Clive lead a group of 950 European and 2,000 Indian soldiers(sepoys)
against a group of 50,000 Indians lead by a degenerate nawab at Plassey. The
victory of the English forces over the local resistance brought Bengal under the
effective political control of the East India Company. Although a "puppet
nawab" was left in control of the area, Clive was granted the right to extract
land revenue from most of eastern India. Through out this whole period, the
company slowly found it's privledges being revoked, until in 1858, the ...

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