HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: W. M. Keck Observatory, Baji Rao Ii, Bajirao I
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Lot of trade between them and europe, through dutch, french, and british eic: lot of people make their living by doing business with these eic, current nawab dies, is replaced by his nephew (?) King, and he will cover all the incurred expenses, and reward the banks and beic: things work out: battle of plassey, june 1757, sud is defeated, captured, and executed. Passes laws 1753-1790, which allows them more and more say in their activities: parliament decides that the governor of calcutta will be called the governor. General, since calcutta is the most important/wealthy trading post: also in charge of running bengal and supervising all trade in india . For some reason bajirao agrees (must have been losing: warlords are(cid:374)"t a fa(cid:374): beic a(cid:374)d (cid:449)arlords start a war (beic win in 1803, 1806, final fighting with the marathas comes to an end; brought under. British control: strong army; trained in european style combat, payed in cash, recruits deserters from.
