This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

The Company’s operations gradually expanded, and soon, it governed large parts of India. One of the most significant consequences of British rule was the draining of India’s wealth to Britain.

As we know that the British East India Company came to ... at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Finally, the rule of the East India Company was brought to an end in 1858 after the First War ...

However, another form of resistance emerged on the plateau of Jharkhand, where, even after British rule, the tribal population ... The British East India Company declared tribal lands its property ...