Knowledge Themes
Vasco da Gama 1498
Estado da India
Blue Water Policy
Cartaz System
Battle of Swally 1612
East India Company Charter 1600
Golden Farman 1632
Battle of Plassey 1757
Battle of Buxar 1764
Treaty of Allahabad 1765
Dual Government in Bengal
Carnatic Wars
Battle of Wandiwash 1760
Subsidiary Alliance
Doctrine of Lapse
Regulating Act 1773
Pitts India Act 1784
Commercialization of Agriculture
De-industrialization
Drain of Wealth Theory
Structural Subtopics
- Discovery of the sea route by Vasco da Gama and its significance
- Portuguese 'Blue Water Policy' and naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean
- Role of Alfonso de Albuquerque in consolidating Portuguese power
- Factors behind the decline of Portuguese influence in India
- Establishment of Dutch factories and their shift to the Indonesian archipelago
- Formation of the English East India Company and the Royal Charter of 1600
- Battle of Swally and the end of Portuguese naval dominance
- Factors contributing to the British victory over other European powers
- Anglo-French rivalry and the impact of the Carnatic Wars
- French East India Company and the role of Joseph Francois Duplex
- Subsidiary Alliance and the Doctrine of Lapse as tools of conquest
- Battle of Plassey and the political breakthrough in Bengal
- Battle of Buxar and the Treaty of Allahabad
- Administrative and military reasons for the success of British in India
- Introduction of new crops and the printing press by Europeans
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