WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the late 1700s, the British East India Company expanded its control over large sections of eastern India from its main base in Bengal. For example, by the mid-1800s, the company had come to control all of the Indian subcontinent and ruled over the country through direct administration.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British Crown took full possession of EIC territories in India with the Government of India Act of 2 August 1858.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1818, the EIC was the paramount political power in India, with direct control over two thirds of the subcontinent’s landmass and indirect control over the rest.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the winds of change beckoned the British East India Company to have a more direct stake in India, a major turning point that would transform it into an empire occurred in 1757. Widely regarded as the start of over two centuries of British rule in India, the Battle of Plassey took place in June 1757.