XD By Brenda_penguinz 1600 Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies 1611 the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast 1670 The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently 1757 EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey