During the 17th and 18th century, India was a very profitable economic market for the big European power because of the wide trades going on in India. There were trades of Chinese silk, all the spices and different flavors of teas were traded in this region. Like all other great powers at the time, Britain was also keen on taking the Indian subcontinent for the trades and the profit it gave off. There were lots …
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…culture and government than any one in BEIC. With his knowledge, he achieved a great deal, such as setting up the civil service, dismissed native tax collectors and appointed British collectors who were strictly forbidden to take bribes. He also sent a British army across India to Bombay to fight the first Mahratta war against the tribes of central India. This action saved Bombay and extended the influence of the company in the western provinces.