The East India Company was a British trading company founded in 1600 that controlled trade between Britain and India. Several other European countries also established their own East India Companies. The British East India Company grew powerful after establishing trading posts and gaining control of territories in India through military victories. Key events that expanded British control included the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After the rebellion, the British government dissolved the East India Company and assumed direct control over India.

2. Introduction

3. What was the East India
Company?
East India Company was the name of
several historical European companies
chartered with Asia, more specially with
India.
• British East India Company, founded
• in 1600
• Danish East India Company, founded
in 1616
• Dutch East India Company, founded in
1602
• French East India Company, founded
in 1664
• Swedish East India Company, founded
in 1731
• Portuguese East India Company,
founded in 1628

4. British East India
Company
• First it was called Honorable East India
Company (HEIC) or often ”John
Company”. Based in London.
• 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 monoply on all trade in the East
Indies.
• The Company had 125 shareholders, and a
capital of £72,000

7. Arrival in India
• 1612 AD 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.

8. 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.

9. Events
• Battle of Plassey
• Battle of Buxar
• Revolt of 1857
• Anglo-Maratha wars.

10. Commercial
• The East India Company wasn’t
concerned about the local needs.
• It’s 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.

11. 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".

12. Robert Clive

13. Battle Of Plassey
• British rule in India is conventionally described as
having begun in 1757. On June 23rd of that year, at
the Battle of Plassey, a small village and mango
grove between Calcutta and Murshidabad, the
forces of the East India Company underRobert
Clive defeated the army of Siraj-ud-daulah, the
Nawab of Bengal. The "battle" lasted no more than
a few hours, and indeed the outcome of the battle
had been decided long before the soldiers came to
the battlefield. The aspirant to the Nawab's throne,
Mir Jafar, was induced to throw in his lot with Clive,
and by far the greater number of the Nawab's
soldiers were bribed to throw away their weapons,
surrender prematurely, and even turn their arms
against their own army.
• Jawaharlal Nehru, in The Discovery of India (1946),
justly describes Clive as having won the battle "by
promoting treason and forgery", and pointedly
notes that British rule in India had "an unsavoury
beginning and something of that bitter taste has
clung to it ever since."

14. Battle Of Plassey

15. Basis Of Monopoly
• Colonial Monopoly
• Military Expansion
• Opium Trade

16. Indian Rebellion (Revolt)
of 1857
• The Indian Rebellion of 1857
resulted in widespread devastation
in India; many condemned the East
India Company for permitting the
events to occur. One of the
consequences of the Indian Mutiny
was that the British Government
nationalised the Company. The
Company lost all its administrative
powers; the Crown, pursuant to the
provisions of theGovernment of
India Act 1858, took over its Indian
possessions, including its armed
forces.

18. British Establishments
• n 1607, the Company decided to build its own ships
and leased a yard on the River Thames at Deptford.
By 1614, the yard having become too small, an
alternative site was acquired at Blackwall: the new
yard was fully operational by 1617. It was sold in
1656, although for some years East India Company
ships continued to be built and repaired there under
the new owners.
• In 1803, an Act of Parliament, promoted by the East
India Company, established the East India Dock
Company, with the aim of establishing a new set of
docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of
ships trading with India. while a new Import Dock
was built to the north. In 1838 the East India Dock
Company merged with the West India Dock
Company. The docks were taken over by the Port of
London Authorityin 1909, and closed in 1967.
• The East India Club in London was formed in 1849
for officers of the Company. The Club still exists
today as a private Gentlemen's club with its club
house situated at 16 St. James's Square, London

20. Flags
Downman (1685)
Lens (1700)
Rees (1820)
Laurie (1842)
National Geographic (1917)

21. Ships
• Ships of the East India Company were
called East Indiamen or simply
"Indiamen Some examples include:
• Red Dragon (1595)
• Doddington (East Indiaman) Lost 1755
• Royal Captain (before 1773)
• HMS Grosvenor Lost 1782
• General Goddard (1782)
• Earl of Abergavenny (1797)
• Earl of Mornington (1799); packet ship
• Lord Nelson (1799)
• Kent (1820): Lost on her third voyage
• Nemesis (1839): first British built
ocean-going iron warship
• Agamemnon (1855)

23. The End of the East India
Company and the 1857
Revolt
• 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 phase of British
imperialism in Asia. The end of the
Company's regime meant that, at last, the
British state had to accept unequivocal
responsibility for the governance of
former Company possessions.
Consequently, new governing institutions
were established in Asia which were
directly answerable to government and
Parliament in London, through the
Secretary of State for India and the India
Office.

24. • These changes went hand-in-hand with a
new culture of governance, created by the
trauma of the Rebellion. Military reforms
resulted in a shift away from Hindustan
as the main recruiting ground for the
Indian army towards the Punjab and
other regions from which troops were
perceived to have shown greater loyalty
to the British. The policy of undermining
Indian law, culture and involvement in
the machinery of government, which had
been applied under the last few decades
of Company rule, was abruptly reversed.

25. Group Members
• Drashti
• Lasya
• Mariam
• Aakash
• Shlomoh
• Sharik
• Gaurang
• Anish
• Burhan

26. Thank You :*