plz describe the suppression of the revolt of the great uprising of 1857
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When British East India Company started their business in seventeenth century, India was under Mughal Empire. Huge, strong and powerful.
At that time EIA was facing strong competition with Dutch, Portuguese, French companies. Building trade relationships with local traders and breaking old established relationships of rivals was the major aim of all the European trade companies.
In this process, every company must own an army to defend and protect their trade objectives. Gradually Mughal Empire became weak and India was primarily divided into 5 main Empires - Mughals, Marathas, Sikhs, Nizam & Nawab of Bengal. By the end of 1803, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000, had captured large areas of India and kicked the major rivals out of India or in limited small areas.
During the revolt of 1857, they had support of many small & big kingdoms. If you look at the below chart, you may find revolutionaries had a minimal base. It was not possible for rebellions to defeat EIA.
Hope this will help you
At that time EIA was facing strong competition with Dutch, Portuguese, French companies. Building trade relationships with local traders and breaking old established relationships of rivals was the major aim of all the European trade companies.
In this process, every company must own an army to defend and protect their trade objectives. Gradually Mughal Empire became weak and India was primarily divided into 5 main Empires - Mughals, Marathas, Sikhs, Nizam & Nawab of Bengal. By the end of 1803, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000, had captured large areas of India and kicked the major rivals out of India or in limited small areas.
During the revolt of 1857, they had support of many small & big kingdoms. If you look at the below chart, you may find revolutionaries had a minimal base. It was not possible for rebellions to defeat EIA.
Hope this will help you
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