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Aurangzeb and the Decline of Mughals Authority.
Mughal officials encouraged the commercial farming of sugarcane, indigo, and cotton to enhance the tax base. and many peasants benefited from the focus on marketable produce. it was good for trade and produce. prosperity afforded provincial leaders the cash and incentive to build up their own military forces. -
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Aurangzeb's Rule
Mughal emperor who used military force to extend his power but whose constant campaigns drained the tresury and whose policy of favoring Islam at the expense of India's other religion generated social and political tensions. -
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Nader Shah
he took advantages of Safavids weaknesses and established a new Iranian dynasty while expelling Russian to Ottoman forces. his Armies stormed into northern India, begging for mercy, the Mughal emperor handed over the keys to his treasury, and even the enabled Peacock Throne before Nader Shah agreed to withdraw. -
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Calcutta was Founded
Rammohun Roys city residence, had its origins as one such factory founded in 1960 when the nawab of Bengal granted a license to the English East India Company to settle and trade. -
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Aurangzeb left Delhi
He left Delhi to live in military encampments., spending vast sums on his campaigns. As military affairs preoccupied the emperor corruption and incompetence crept into the government. -
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Joseph Francois Duplex
Governor-general in charge of all French Establishments in India. Duplex used diplomacy to forge alliances with local rulers and with their help defeated a much larger British forces in the 1740. -
Aurangzeb Ruling
He had a long rule (1658- 1707) and after his death the empire began to fragment, leading to invasions from Iran to Afghanistan to the emerges to autonomous regional states. Then the British arrived and came into Bengal, and they would fill the power Vacuum left by Mughal decline. -
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Lord Charles Cornwallis' Rule
British general who surrendered to American forces at Yorktown and later served as governor general of India and Ireland. -
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Seven Years War
threatened by French advances in South Asia during the Seven Years War, the British fortfied their trading past at all Calcutta. -
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Battle of Plassey
battle that gave the East India Company control of the rich eastern Mughal of Bengal, Sir Robert Clive used alliances with Indian rulers to defeat the larger forces of Siraj ud-daulah , the newab of Bengal. -
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Bengal famine of 1769
when terrible famine in 1769 killed one third of bengals population, some in Parliament blamed East India Company, which fed its own employees and soldiers but did nothing for Bengals. -
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Rammohun Roys Return to Calcutta
Roy Vigorusly supprted the development of an English Language college in Cacutta. "The Pupils will there acquire what is known two thousand years ago with the addition of vain and empty subtitles." -
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British Defeat the Marathas
When Maratha armies threatened the British East India Companies factory at Bombay, the British engaged in a series of alliances and interventions in that region. Finally, in 1818 they defeated the Marathas, and from then on moved toward control of all South Asia.
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