Question

when did british come to india

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The British first landed in India in Surat for the purpose of trade. Here’s how and
why a simple trading company, the British East India Company, became one of the biggest challenges the subcontinent had ever dealt with.


The British landed in India in Surat on August 24, 1608. While India has a rich and recorded history going back 4000 years to the Indus Valley Civilisation in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Britain had no indigenous written language until the 9th century almost 3000 years after India. Then how was it possible for the British to start capturing this huge country and control it from 1757 to 1947?
They had more economic power, better weapons and a certain European confidence which allowed then to slowly permeate into the Indian subcontinent till it was ruling the huge nation.


This made India the centre of attention of Europe’s trade circuit and European powers rushed to Asia to get their own trading posts.
Even though the primary motive at first was trade, slowly, the European powers started to get more interested in Acquiring territory. The British were one of these powers looking for money and action.