Question

Describe the causes and the consequences of the First Carnatic war.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Carnatic Wars (also spelled Karnatic Wars) were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India.

Explanation:

Causes

The real cause of the war was the beginning of the war of Austrian succession in 1740 in Europe in which England and France found themselves in opposite camps. When the war began in Europe the English and the French companies sued for peace in India and requested their respective home governments accordingly. The French government agreed but the British government paid no heed to the request of its company. It dispatched a naval fleet with a view to destroying the French trade in India. The fleet succeeded in destroying some French ships in the Indian ocean. One of the destroyed ships belonged to Dupleix, the governor of the French company who was enraged and decided to fight back the English. The first Carnatic war, therefore, started in 1746.

consequences

••Britain and France signed the treaty of Aix la Chapelle in 1748 and therefore, peace was restored in India as well.

••By the treaty, Madras was handed over to the English in exchange of Lubar in America to France much against the wishes of Dupleix. Thus ended the first Carnatic war between the English and the French.

••It was neither a decisive war nor it brought about any change in the territorial possessions of either party. Yet it was important in some other respects.

••The English and the French came to know the geographical features of the territories extending over nearly one hundred miles around the centers of their power.

••It also exposed to them the military weakness of the Indian rulers.

••It brought into focus the importance of the Navy as an effective instrument of war.