Read this article to learn about the policy of non-intervention made by the British Governor General’s. Lord Cornwallis (1895): The forward policy of Wellesley created much apprehension in the minds of the Directors who appointed Lord Cornwallis for a second time as Governor-General with clear instruction to pursue a policy of peace and non-Intervention. Cornwallis immediately on his arrival in [...]
The British East India Company slowly and gradually expanded its trading activities in India by getting permission from the then ruling powers, the Mughals and the local rulers. By the time the Mughal Empire’s decline started and it fragmented into successor states, the British East India Company developed designs of becoming a political power by the middle of the 18th [...]
Of all the European East India companies which came to India as traders in different periods of the 15th and 16th centuries, only the British and the French East India companies remained as dominant ones by the beginning of the 18th century. In the first decade of the 18th century, the fortunes of the then mighty Mughal Empire began to [...]