How did the East India Company subdue the Indian princes?
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Answer:
The Indian princes were constantly at war with each other. They called the English merchants to help them in their fights. The people had no peace due to such constant fights. The rivalries helped the East India Company subdue the Indian princes one by one.
Answer:
The Indian princes were constantly at war with each other. They called the English merchants to help them in their fights. The people had no peace due to such constant fights. The rivalries helped the East India Company subdue the Indian princes one by one.
Explanation:
East India company right from beginning plot one king against other to gain in terms of farmans and establishing more factories . Company employeees also get benefits from victorious Kings and this ignited the hopes of all East India company employees to gain monetary benefits by helping Kings at first. Indian Kings at first saw company as advantage in terms of increasing taxes and payments by company to kingdom by maximizing trade of goods . Thus Kings gave many imperial farmans to benefit from expanding trade by European markets. Slowly economic influence started growing and some Kings started suspecting company moves and thought to check company activities as to restrict only for economy not to fortification of factories and carrying arms . Shuja ud din daula , alivardi Khan, haidar Ali, Tipu sultan we're some Kings tried to check company activities. But company started to make alliances with elites and some nobles within Kings army or started alliances with neighbor kingdoms to gain numerical strength of power. First such act happened in BATTLE OF CARNATIC , later this raised ambitions in company and they challenged Bengal king and won the war against shuja ud din daula by conspiring with Mir Zafar of Bengal kingdom in Battle of Plassey. The final blow to Kings power came in form of Battle of buxar where the three alliance of Mughal, Awadh and Bengal not able to win against British and this led to Company emergence as a territorial power. Later they started annexation or war against kingdoms and with Treaty of Subsidiary Alliance major kingdoms ex- Hyderabad, Kerala, Gwalior,Holkar; came under the protection of British company. With Dalhousie Doctrine of Lapse all kingdoms who don't have natural heir annexed to British empire ex- Jhansi. Queens Proclamation the final subordination of all kingdoms under British Queen happened with this all princely states lost their independence and remained as agents of British empire . Until independence they stand aside of British empire and supported them in war also .