Question

Nana Fadanvis
P Narayan Rao
75) within how many years did Lord Wellesley expand the British
company and make British rule supreme in India -
A. Seven B Five C SEX D Four​

Answer 1

Answer:

Lord Wellesley (as Governor General) 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.

Lord Wellesley

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.

The Third Anglo-Mysore war had reduced Mysore to a mere shadow of its recent greatness and the Marathas were dissipating their strength in mutual intrigues and wars.

Political conditions in India were propitious for a policy of (British) expansion: aggression was easy as well as profitable.