Vorlesen
A London trading company arrives in Mughal India asking for permission to trade, and about 160 years later it rules Bengal. Students follow the Company from Surat, Madras and Calcutta to the battlefield of Plassey, and ask how traders became rulers, and at what cost.
Am Ende der Stunde können die Schüler
- Explain how the East India Company changed from a trading company into a ruling power in India.
- Locate Surat, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Plassey on the map.
- Describe the effects of Company rule on the people of Bengal.