1. The company gained a huge amount of wealth from the treasury of Bengal and used it to strengthen its military force.
2. The beginning of the British political sway over India may be traced from the Battle of Plassey.
3. It was the most decisive battle that marked the initiation of British rule in India for the next two centuries.

1. There was a small dungeon room in the Fort William in Calcutta, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-daulah, held 146 British Prisoners of war for one night.
2. Next day morning, when the door was opened 123 of the prisoners were found dead because of suffocation.

1. The French were the most serious rivals to the English in India.
2. The English were successful in establishing their supremacy in India
3. The following were the causes for the success of the English in India.
4. The English had good financial position.
5. The Government in England rendered adequate support to the English East India Company.
6. The English had good trade facilities.
7. The English had a strong and superior naval power.
8. There was good understanding between the English Generals.
9. Development of textile was another cause.
10. There was scientific division of labour.
11. Economic prosperity and skilful diplomacy of the British.
12. The Indian merchants felt insecure.
13. The inequality and ignorance of the Indian kings.

1. Lord Dalhousie was one of the chief architects of the British Empire in India. He was an imperialist. He adopted a new policy known as Doctrine of Lapse to extend British Empire
2. He made use of this precedent and declared in 1848 that if the native rulers adopted children without the prior permission of the Company, only the personal properties of the rulers would go to the adopted sons and the kingdom would go to the British paramount power.
3. It was bitterly opposed by the Indians. It was one of the root causes for the Great Revolt of 1857

1. The main cause of this war was the issue of succession in Carnatic and Hyderabad.
2. Anwaruddin Khan and Chanda Sahib were the two claimants to the throne of Carnatic, whereas Nasir Jang and Muzaffar Jang were claimants to the throne of Hyderabad.
3. The French supported Chanda Sahib and Muzaffar Jang, while the British supported the other claimants with the objective of keeping their interest and influence in the entire Deccan region.
Wars: Battle of Ambur (1749)
1. Dupleix, Chanda Sahib and Muzaffar Jang formed a grand alliance and defeated and killed Anwar-ud-din Khan, the Nawab of Carnatic, on 3 August 1749 in the Battle of Ambur.
2. Chanda Sahib became the Nawab of Carnatic and rewarded the French with the grant of 80 villages around Pondicherry.
3. In the Deccan, too, the French defeated and killed Nasir Jang and made Muzaffar Jang as the Nizam. The French received the Northern Circar.
Battle of Arcot (1751):
1. Dupleix sent forces to besiege the Fort of Trichy where Muhammad Ali had taken shelter in 1751.
2. Chanda Sahib also joined the French, Robert Clive attacked Arent and defeated the French at Arni and Kaveripak.
3. Muhammad Ali was made the Nawab of Arcot under British protection.
Treaty of Pondicerry:
1. According to it, both the powers agreed not to interfere in the internal affairs of the native states.
2. They were to retain their old positions. New forts should not be built by either power.
3. The treaty made the British stronger. The French were still very powerful in Hyderabad.
4. However the predominant position of the French in the Deccan peninsula was definitely undermined in this war.