Third Carnatic War 1757-63 The conflict between the France and England got renewed in 1756 in Europe, in the form of Seven Years War, which is coterminous with...
End of Dupleix Career & Rise of Clive The end of the Second Carnatic war brought a disaster for Dupleix. The French Government recalled him and Dupleix was...
Second Carnatic War 1749-54 France and England were at Peace during the Second Carnatic War. In 1748, the Nizam of Hyderabad Asaf Jah I died and there was...
First Carnatic War 1746-48 was a part of the War of the Austrian Succession that was fought between the Kingdom of Prussia, Spain, France, and Bavaria, Sweden etc. on one side...
Robert Clive (born 1725) was appointed as Clerk in the service of the East India Company in 1743. The Seize of Arcot (1761) during Second Carnatic War gave...
The political history of the British in India begins with the Carnatic Wars, which were fought in the early eighteenth century. The Fort St. George or Madras was...
In 1741, Joseph François Dupleix began to cherish the ambition of a French Empire in India but could not sell the idea to his superiors. The series of...
Among the Dutch, Danish, Portuguese and French, the French East India Company was the last to be formed. Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the French East India Company in 1664....
Foundation of Bombay However, the growing powers of Marathas became a headache for the company. Surat was open to constant raids by the Marathas and was beyond the...
From 1687 till 1692, Elihu Yale remained the governor of the British East India Company at Madras. He was instrumental in the development of the Government General Hospital,...
