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Answer:This article is about the rule of the East India Company on the Indian subcontinent from 1757 to 1858. For rule by the British Crown from 1858 to 1947, see British Raj.

Company rule in India

1757–1858

Flag of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg

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Located in South Asia

Areas of South Asia under Company rule (a) 1774–1804 and (b) 1805–1858 shown in two shades of pink

Status British colony

Capital Calcutta (1757–1858)

Common languages Official: 1773–1858: English; 1773–1836: Persian[1][2] 1837–1858: primarily Urdu[1][2][3][4]

but also: Languages of South Asia.

Government Administered by the East India Company functioning as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown and regulated by the British Parliament.

Governor-General  

• 1774–1785 (first)

Warren Hastings

• 1857–1858 (last)

Charles Canning

Historical era Early modern

• Battle of Plassey

23 June 1757

• Treaty of Allahabad

16 August 1765

•  

2 August 1858

• Dissolution of the Company and assumption of direct administration by the British crown

2 August 1858

Area

1858[5] 1,942,481 km2 (749,996 sq mi)

Currency Rupee

Preceded by Succeeded by

Mughal Empire

Maratha Empire

Sikh Empire

Ahom kingdom

British Raj  

 

Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj,[6] "raj," lit. "rule" in Hindi[7]) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the Company,[8] in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar,[9] or in 1773, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.[10] The rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857 and consequent of the Government of India Act 1858, the British government assumed the task of directly

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