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Traders to Rulers
History & Civics · Chapter 6 · History: The Modern World
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- Trade and commerce in India in the 17th and 18th centuries; rivalry among European trading companies
- Advent of the English East India Company (brief)
- Conquest of Bengal: the Battles of Plassey and Buxar, causes and results
- Dual Government in Bengal and its drawbacks
- Policy of British expansion: Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse and the annexation of Awadh