Indian colonization

  • Queen Anne granted a royal charter to some London merchants

  • British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam

  • EIC received the freedom to act as a free entity

  • EIC waged war on the states in the Indian region

  • EIC fought the Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Oudh to gain control of Bihar and Oudh

  • control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown

  • the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government

  • Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India

  • civil disobedience led by Gandhi

  • the British were ready to give up rule in India which led to Indian independence and the partition of the ruled area into two separate nations- Pakistan and India