British used legal and illegal methods to expand their territories in India. Comment.
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British mostly used illegal methods to expand their territories like divide and rule policy and Doctrine of Lapse. They even fought battles as they knew that our country had not succeeded in the invention of weapons and all The Battle of Plassey was the first war from which they understood our weaknesses and started all kinds of illegal practices to expand their political influence over us.
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The answer is in the below.
Explanation:
Although the 1600s and early 1700s saw the East India Company primarily focused on the trade of textiles, by the mid 18th century the Company’s trading patterns began to change. The reasons for this were two-fold.
Firstly, the industrial revolution had changed the way that the Company dealt with the textiles trade. Prior to this, highly skilled weavers were employed in India to make cottons and silks by hand. These light, colourful and easy to wear garments were popular amongst the fashionistas and upper classes of Britain.
By the time of the Industrial Revolution, Britain had started producing these garments in its own factories, dramatically lowering prices (due to mass production) and bringing the fashions into the reach of the middle classes.
The second reason for this change in trading patterns was the growing desire in Europe for Chinese tea. This was a potentially massive market for the Company, but was held back by the fact that the Chinese only traded their tea for silver. Unfortunately Britain was on the gold standard at the time, and had to import silver from continental Europe, making the whole tea trade .