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The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774 - Contextual Essays

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The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752–1774

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A painting of Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, oil on canvas (Francis Hayman, c. 1762)

Shaping the Jewel in the Crown: How the British East India Company lay the Foundations for Colonial Subjugation of India.

In 1858, large swathes of the Indian subcontinent were officially subjugated under the British Crown and became known as the British Raj (translating literally in Hindi to ‘British Rule’). This was the culmination of many decades of British encroachment on... Read more →

Sean Waite

Published 20th September, 2021

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Vintage engraving of Old India Office, London, 19th Century. East India House was the London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took control of the Company's possessions in India in 1858. It was located in Leadenhall Street in the City of London.

Licensed to access The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806–1814

1806 1814

Licensed to access The British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879–1920

1879 1910

An image of the painting The Relief of Lucknow, by Thomas Jones Barker. The siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Licensed to access World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782–1908

1782 1908

A collage of buildings with the title Trade Unionism in India in the top left. On the right is an illustration of a man and woman in front of a hammer and sickle, with The Prisoners' Reply above them. Text reading Meerut 1931 runs down the right of the image.

Licensed to access Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929–1933

1929 1933

An illustration of St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta.

Licensed to access Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770–1931

1770 1931