mind map on the topic : EXPANSION OF BRITISH POWERS
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Britisher was an merchants they came other country to business like in India they first made east india company and then he saw the people are divided according to cast ,small kingdom ,etc so they divide the people and rule .Day by Day his power become strong he made many rules doctrine of lapse
,debta must paid by every people etc .When he capture maximum parts of india then they ruled like a king they use our sepoy too increse kingdom .
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The next large-scale expansion of British rule in India occurred during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Wellesley who came to India in 1798 at a time when the British were locked in a life-and- death struggle with France all over the world.
India in 1805
Till then, the British had followed the policy of consolidating their gains and resources in India and making territorial gains only when this could be done safely without antagonizing the major Indian powers. Lord Wellesley decided that the time was ripe for bringing as many Indian states as possible under British control. By 1797 the two strongest Indian powers, Mysore and the Marathas, had declined in power.
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Political conditions in India were propitious for a policy of expansion:
Aggression was easy as well as profitable. To achieve his political aims Wellesley relied on three methods: the system of Subsidiary Alliances’, outright war, and the assumption of the territories of previously subordinated rulers.
While the practice of helping an Indian ruler with a paid British force was quite old, it was given definite shape by Wellesley who used it to subordinate the Indian states to the paramount authority of the Company.