indian nationalism

indian nationalism

Trading

• In 1601, the British business, East India

  Trading Company, arrived in India and

  began setting up trading posts.

• Great Britain began trading with India in

  the 1660s.

• At first, the British were only interested in

  trading goods (ivory, gold, silks, dyes) and

  spices (cinnamon, saffron, pepper, sugar,

  vanilla).

• Sir James

  Lancaster commanded the

  first East India

  voyage in 1601.

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A Colony

• By 1760, Great Britain had gained

  economic and political control over

  India.