1. 1600
1900
1700
1800
British Rule
Yu Rong L. and Isabel C.

2. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1600s - East Indian Company
• East Indian Company won
rights to build trading
posts and forts at madras,
Bombay and Calcutta
• The traded gold and silver
for Indian goods such as
cotton
• Mughal rulers looked
down on Europeans
• Indians believed
newcomers had little of
value to offer

3. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1700s – Decline of Mughal
Empire
• No longer controlled most of the
subcontinent
• Princes set up independent
kingdoms
• French and British fought for land
and made Indian allies

4. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1760s – British overcame
French
• Both sought trading rights from
the Mughals
• Competing for political and
economic power
• Took advantage of Mughal
Empire decline
• Both made Indian allies
• British forces overcame French
British surrender of Madras

5. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1857 – Sepoy Rebellion
• Started in Delhi
• Sepoys were Indians fighting
in British army
• New cartridges were greased
with pork and beef fat
• Muslims are forbidden to
touch pork
• Hindus worship cattle
• Sepoys rebelled
• English stopped the rebellion

6. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1858 – India as Colony
• As result of Sepoy
Rebellion
• Queen of England declared
India as an official colony

7. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1885 – Indian National
Congress
• INC was a group of hindus
• Group demanded for gradual change
• Asked for more government jobs for Indians

8. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1906 – Muslim League
• Muslims were worried about the power in India
• Demanded that independence be followed by
partition of India into two separate countries
• One Muslim, one Hindu

9. 1600
1900
1700
1800
1920 - Gandhi
• Gandhi united large
mass of Indian people
• Demanded for
independence