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The Scramble for Asia: Britain's India Company Wars
While the Berlin Conference divided Africa in 1884, Europe’s imperial powers were already carving up Asia through corporate proxies. This episode examines how the British East India Company transformed from a trading entity into a territorial sovereign, leveraging military victories like the Battle of Plassey to dismantle the Mughal Empire’s authority in Bengal. We explore the role of Robert Clive and the treachery of Mir Jafar, who swapped allegiance for power, and how the Company’s fiscal policies, later critiqued by Dadabhai Naoroji’s Drain Theory, extracted wealth from India to fuel…
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