Before the Seven Year's War reaches India in fulll, one of its most important combatants is already in place- and it isn't a government. this supplemental episode introduces the British East India Company: what it was, what it was created to do, and how a private trading company slowly became a political and military power.
Tracing the Company's evolution from commerce to coercion - through militarization, political intervention, and the First and Second Carnatic Wars - this episode explains why India becomes the a decisive theater of the goal war, and why what follows willll look less like Britain vs France and more like contracts, careers, and cannons colliding.
Mughal Empire (1707)
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European Settlements in India 1498 - 1739
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Map of the Carnatic Region of India
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Map of Bengal (1733)
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