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Brainliest for correct answer. Robert Clive was the pioneer for the expansionist policy of East India Company in India. Justify this statement

Answer 1

Robert Clive was a very important person who helps to set up british rule in India without him the british would not have enough power to convince other authorities to let them into India and also convince the lot of rulers in Bengal to accept british rule

Answer 2

Robert Clive was the pioneer for the expansionist policy of East India Company in India

Explanation:

• The "East India Company"(EIC) rule in India was the rule by the British over parts of the Indian sub-continent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the "Battle of Plassey" that witnessed  the EIC's conquest of the "proto-industrialised" Mughal Bengal
• The EIC victory under Robert Clive in the year 1757 "Battle of Plassey"& as well as the  victory in the year 1764  in "Battle of Buxar" has consolidated the EIC's power. Thus, EIC had become the "de facto ruler" of large areas of the" lower Gangetic plain" by  the year 1773.
• There had primarily been two ways of increasing the influence of the EIC. The first was the  "outright annexation"  of Indian states and then direct control of the underlying territories, which ultimately comprised British India.
• The British East India Company began an outright war of policy of non-intervention and the assertion of the territories of formerly subordinate rulers, i.e. taking Indian territories into the sphere of the British government.  The Subsidiary Alliance System which was a “Non-Intervention Policy” to set up the British Empire.
• Under this scheme, every Indian king had to agree to give the British a subsidy to sustain the British army. In return, British will defend against their opponent, which enabled Britain to expand enormously. The Subsidiary Alliance Agreement was a loss of sovereignty document which indicated that the State did not have the right to self-defense, to maintain diplomatic relations, to employ foreign experts and to resolve conflicts with its neighbours.

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