Question

2. What were the factors that enabled the British
to consolidate their power and position in the
Indian subcontinent?​

Answer 1

Answer:

gradually expanded its trading activities in India by getting permission from the then ruling powers, the Mughals and the local rulers.

By the time the Mughal Empire’s decline started and it fragmented into successor states, the British East India Company developed designs of becoming a political power by the middle of the 18th century.

The British East India Company in its desire to become a political power realized that it had to eliminate the other European companies from trading activity and so obtained permission to build forts and to improve its military strength.