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reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India.
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granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies.
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Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal.
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a mission to expand faster and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freedom to act as a free entity
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wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey
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9 years later, the EIC fought the Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Oudh to gain control of Bihar and Oudh.
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led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crow
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Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government
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18 years later in Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.
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Over the next 71 years, the British rulers were being challenged left and right by their ruled peoples. One such challenge was the Salt March which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi.