Company rule in India
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Company rule in India was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Benga
Regions under Company rule shown in two shades of pink (a) very light (1774–1804) and (b) medium (1805–1858)
India in 1765 and 1805 showing East India Company Territories in pink.
India in 1837 and 1857, showing East India Company-governed territories in pink.
Silver Half-Rupee 1787 Bengal Presidency, Murshidabad Mint, issued in the name of Shah Alam II, Mughal Emperor
Maratha Empire
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The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. For most of its existence, it comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major
Company rule in India
…wars (1766–1799) and the Anglo-Maratha wars (1772–1818) left it in control of large areas of India south of the Sutlej river. With the defeat of the Marathas, no native power represented a threat for the Company any longer. The expansion of the company's power chiefly took two forms. The first of these was…
The Maratha Empire (yellow) in 1760
Early Maratha conquests, in Shivaji's and Shahji's time
Portrait of Shivaji, in the Rijksmuseum, Netherland.
Peshwa Bajirao I and Malhar Rao Holkar c.18th century