This is the simple descriptions with dates and important events of East India Company's rule over India.

1. Crash Course on British East India Company before 1857
By Amit Sen Gupta
1498 → Vasco De Gama came to India. (Calicut)
1526 → Mughal Empire started.
1595 → Dutch Arrived at Pulicat.
1608 → English arrived at Surat.
→ With a charter from Queen Elizabeth I (1600).
→ Mughal Emperor was Jahangir.
1616 → Danish arrived at Tranquebar.
1651 → First English factory at Hugli.
1664 → French arrived at Pondicherry.
1696 → English started building Fort.
→ Get Mansabdari Trade Duty Free (Kolkata).
→ Huge lose for Bengal governor.
→ more over corrupted English official’s private trade made huge lose.
1707 → Aurangzeb Died → Bahadur Shah I → Jahandar Shah.
1713 → Farrukhshiyar (Subedars start declaring independence!!!) - 1719

2. 1717 → Murshid Kuli Khan (1st Nawab of Bengal) – 1727
→ Anti English company because they didn’t pay tax.
1740 → Ali Bardi Khan – 1756.
→ Fought with Maratha.
→ also fought with English company.
1756 → Siraj Ud-Daulah – 1757.
→ Had Anti-English thoughts because they didn’t pay tax.
→ Attack Fort William, Calcutta.
→ English company sent Robert Clive to tackle the situation.
→ Clive play politics and make an agreement with Mir Jafar.
1757 → Battle of Plassey (23 June).
→ English won the war.
→ Robert Clive was made Governor of Bengal.
→ Mir Jafar became the puppet Nawab of Bengal.
1758 → Warren Hasting (Resident of Bengal)
→ make the decision who would be perfect ruler for the British company!!!

3. → He was captured in 1756 by the army of Nawab Siraj.
1760 → Mir Qasim (Puppet Nawab).
→ Governor Robert Clive left India with huge wealth.
1761 → Third Panipat war; Maratha vs Ahmed Shah Abdali. (Emperor of
Durrani empire, Afganistan.
→ Maratha lost the war
1764 → Battle of Boxer.
→ British under the command of Maj. Hector Munro.
→ Mir Qasim+Shuja ud-Daulah (Nawab of Awadh) +Shah Allam II
(Mughal Emperor 1760-1806).
→ British won the war.
→ Qasim committed suicide.
→ Mir Jafar reinstalled as the Nawab of Bengal.
1765 → Robert Clive back to India.
→ Was Made Governor of Bengal.
→ Mir Jafar Died.
→ Clive wrote letter to England that theyshould make their own Nawab.
→ Clive introduce Dual System of Govt. (1765-1772)
Company
Defence
(Main Power)
Administration
Nawab
Civil Administration

4. → Mughal Emperor Shah Allam II Forced to appoint East India Company “Diwan of
Bengal”
→ Company got right to collect the tax from Bengal, Bihar, Uridha.
→ Company pays a yearly revenue to the Mughal Emperor
→ England stops giving money to the company but company was
economically independent then moreover they sent the profit of
company trade and the looting of India begin.
1765 → First Anglo-Maratha war.
→ Started with treaty of Surat.
→ Ended with Treaty of Salbai.
→ First Anglo Mysore war- 1769
Short History of Robert Clive
1743 → Came to Madras, India.
→ assistant shopkeeper→ army officer of company.
→ governor of Bengal twice.
1767 →Left India.
1772 → Charged with corruption.
1774 → Committed suicide.
Hating’s Judicial Plan (1772)
Bangla, Bihar, Orissa
Faujdari Adalat (Criminal
Court)
Diwani Adalat (Civil
Court)
District
District Collector
(Admistrator,
Judge, Megistrate )

5. 1771 → Warren Hasting became Governor of Bengal.
1772 → Clive’s Dual System of Govt. Ends.
→ Hating’s Judicial Plan Start.
→ Qazis and Pandits order to interpreted the Indian law.
1773 → The regulating Act. (Law for the company)
→ Warren Hasting became 1st Governor General of India. - 1785
Governing System of India (1773)
Governor
General
Governor
of Bombay
Governor
of Madras
Governor
of Bengal

6. 1780 → Second Anglo English war – 1784
1786 → Lord Cornwallis Govt. General of India. – 1793
1790 → Third Anglo Mysore war.
1798 → Lord Wellesley – 1805
1799 → Fourth Anglo Mysore war.
→British+Maratha+Hydrabad (Nizam) vs Tipu advisors from French.
→ Tipu sultan lost the battle
→ He was captured and killed.
1803 → Second Anglo-Maratha war. - 1805
→ British acquired Odisha.
1817 → Third Anglo-Maratha War. – 1818
→ Maratha Empire was crushed after this war.
1838 → First Anglo-Afghan war -1842 (English won)
1843 → British Took over Sindh.
1845 → First Anglo-Sikh War – 1846
1848 → Second Anglo-Sikh War – 1849
→ Punjab was captured by English.

7. Doctrine of Lapse
“If a ruler died without MALE SUCCESSOR his Kingdom would lapse”
1856 → Awadh was taken by British
→ claimed by British because of so called misrule of nawab and free the
people of Awadh!!!
→ 10th and last Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah forced to Calcutta
with the yearly pension.
1857 → The Great India Revolt (The Sepoy Mutiny)
→ India’s first Struggle for Independence.
→ End of Company rule in India.
1858 → The Government of India Act was Passed
→ Rule forwarded to British Crown.
→ Queen Victoria (Ruled 1837-1901)
Part One Ends