Question

Why did the company appointmentb'residents' in the Indian states

Answer 1

The Company did not launch an attack on a territory or state it did not know. It appointed its Residents in the Indian states. These Residents were their agents and they had to serve in the best interest of the Company and were used to interfere in the internal affairs of the state.

Answer 2

Answer:

On 2nd August 1858 the Parliament passed a bill to take over the administration of India from the East Indian Company by the British Crown.

Right till the nineteenth century nothing threatened the rule of the British in the Indian sub-continent, until the first Indian war of Independence in 1857.