who were the officials or commercial agents of the companies
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1. Introduction
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A Story of From Trade to Territory
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The Company Establishes Power
East India Company Comes East
Company Rule Expands
Setting Up a New Administration
Conclusion
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From Trade to Territory
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Company Rule Expands
After the Battle of Buxar, the Company appointed Resident Officers in Indian states. They were political or commercial agents, and their job was to serve and further the interests of the Company.
Soon, the Company began forcing the Indian states into joining a subsidiary alliance (a partnership between a ruling country and a country that is being ruled). According to the terms of this agreement, Indian rulers were not allowed to have their independent armed forces, but were to be protected by the Company.
The local rulers also had to pay for the subsidiary forces that the Company promised to maintain for the purpose of their "protection".
And if the Indian rulers failed to make the payment, then part of their territory was taken away. The kingdoms of Awadh and Hyderabad, for example, were forced to cede territories on this ground.
Tipu Sultan – The “Tiger of Mysore”
When the company saw a threat to its political or economic interests, it resorted to direct military confrontation, as happened in Mysore and many other kingdoms.
Mysore had become powerful under rulers like Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, and it controlled the profitable trade of the Malabar coast where the Company purchased pepper and cardamom.
Tipu Sultan, in 1785, stopped the export of sandalwood, pepper, and cardamom through the ports of his kingdom, and disallowed local merchants from trading with the Company. This angered the company very much.
The Company lost four wars to Mysore, but in the last one, the Battle of Seringapatam, the company won and Tipu Sultan was killed.
Wars With the Marathas
The company also subdued the Marathas in a series of wars:
Mahadji Sindhia and Nana Phadnis were two famous Maratha soldiers and statesmen of the late 18th century, and when the First Anglo-Maratha War ended in 1782 with the Treaty of Salbai, there was no clear victor.
The Second Anglo-Maratha War, from 1803 to 1805, was fought on different fronts, and resulted in the British gaining Orissa and territories north of the Yamuna river, including Agra and Delhi.
The Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817 to 1819 finally crushed Maratha power.
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After the Battle of Buxar, the Company appointed Resident Officers in Indian states. They were political or commercial agents, and their job was to serve and further the interests of the Company.