From trade to territory

By aryan goenka

  • Queen Elizabeth gave the charter

    Queen Elizabeth gave the charter to her men for soul free right to trade from the east

  • East India company begins trade in Bengal

    The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugli.

  • Zamindari rights

    It began building a Fort around the settlement. Two years later it bribed mughal officials into giving the company into giving the company zamindari rights rights over three villages one of which was Kolkata

  • The Battle of Plassey 1

    Why alivardi khan died in 1756, Sirajuddaulah became the nawab of Bengal. The company was worried about the power and keen on a puppet ruler who would willingly give the trade concessions and other privileges. So the company tried to make sirajuddaulah’s rival the nawab, but the plan failed.