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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: 1757 treaties, Conflicts in 1757, States and territories disestablished in 1757, States and territories established in 1757, Company rule in India, Battle of Plassey, Siege of Fort William Henry, Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, Invasion of Hanover, List of state leaders in 1757, Battle of Rossbach, Raid on Rochefort, Pashalik of Shkodra, Battle on Snowshoes, Battle of Cap-Francais, Battle of Hastenbeck, Pomeranian War, Carnatic Wars, Battle of Leuthen, Battle of Sabbath Day Point, Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Battle of Prague, Raid on St Malo, Attack on German Flatts, Battle of Kolin, Battle of Gross-Jagersdorf, Battle of Bloody Creek, Blockade of Stralsund, 1757 Berlin raid, Battle of Bobbili, Siege of Prague, Treaty of Versailles, Convention of Klosterzeven, Battle of Breslau, Battle of Reichenberg, Louisbourg Expedition, First Magdalena Massacre, Battle of Moys, Battle of Chandannagar, Mangkunegaran, Treaty of Alinagar, Alipura, Battle of Khresili, List of colonial governors in 1757. Excerpt: Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj, "raj," lit. "reign" in Hindi) refers to the rule or dominion 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 Bengal surrendered his dominions to the Company, in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, or in 1772, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance. The rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857 and consequent of the Government of India Act 1858, the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj. The English East India Company (hereafte...
