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The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company

East India Company was established on December 31, 1600.

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The capital of British India was transferred from Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Delhi in the year 1911.

The announcement to shift the capital was made during the Delhi Durbar  held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V.

The new capital in Delhi was known as New Delhi and was designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens.

It became the center of British colonial administration in India.

Explanation

• war of Plassey, (23 June 1757). Victory for the British East India company inside the war of Plassey become the start of nearly two centuries of British rule in India.
• For an occasion with such momentous effects, it turned into a fairly unimpressive military come across, the defeat of the Nawab of Bengal owing an awful lot to betrayal.
• In India, Britain turned into represented by the British East India enterprise, a challenge that have been given a royal charter in 1600 to pursue trade inside the East Indies that protected the right to shape its very own army.
• The French East India organization had a similar remit. From 1746, the rival agencies fought the Carnatic Wars for advantage in India, wherein they maintained trading posts, and sought impact over local rulers.

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Lord Hastings was the Governor General of India when the Third Anglo-Maratha War took place

Third Anglo-Maratha War was the final and decisive conflict between the English East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India

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Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of India from 1847 to 1856.

He merged the state of Punjab with the British Empire, after the Second Anglo-Sikh War

Explanation

The last major of British Indian Territory took place during the time of Dalhousie.

He by his “doctrine of lapse” and on the “basis of Maladministration” .

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Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia.