Pre-Study: What to Study
12 Subtopics · 99 ConceptsFirst Empire and Second Empire
Importance 1/5 What to Study
The Accidental and Intentional Schools
Importance 2/5 What to StudyA Balanced View of British Motives
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Competing Starting Points of the British Period
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Military Advantages: Arms, Discipline and Regular Pay
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCivil Discipline, Merit and Leadership
Importance 2/5 What to StudyFinancial Strength, Sea Power and Nationalist Pride
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Bengal on the Eve of British Conquest
Bengal's Wealth and the Company's Stake in Its Trade
Importance 3/5 What to StudyBengal's Nawabs from Murshid Quli Khan to Alivardi Khan
Importance 2/5 What to StudyAlivardi Khan and the English
Alivardi Khan's Rule and the English
Importance 1/5 What to StudyChallenges Before Siraj-ud-Daulah
Siraj-ud-Daulah's Rivals and Early Moves
Importance 2/5 What to StudyThe Battle of Plassey
Causes of Conflict Before Plassey and the Black Hole Episode
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Battle of Plassey (1757)
Importance 4/5 What to StudySignificance of the Battle of Plassey
Importance 4/5 What to StudyMir Kasim and the Treaty of 1760
Mir Jafar's Fall and the Treaty of 1760
Importance 2/5 What to StudySteps Taken by Mir Kasim
Importance 2/5 What to StudyThe Battle of Buxar
Dastak Misuse and the Transit Duty Dispute
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Battle of Buxar (1764) and Its Importance
Importance 4/5 What to StudyBengal's Settlement After Buxar
Importance 1/5 What to StudyThe Treaty of Allahabad
Terms with Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTerms with Shah Alam II and the Grant of Diwani
Importance 4/5 What to StudyClive's Reasons Behind the Allahabad Settlement
Importance 2/5 What to StudyDual Government in Bengal (1765–72)
Working of the Dual Government
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEffects and End of the Dual Government
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRobert Clive's Career and Historians' View of Him
Importance 2/5 What to Study
The Wodeyar/Mysore Dynasty
The Wodeyars and Why Mysore Alarmed the English
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRise of Haidar Ali
Haidar Ali's Rise to Power
Importance 2/5 What to StudyHaidar Ali's Military Modernisation and Campaigns
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFirst Anglo-Mysore War (1767-69)
Background and Shifting Alliances
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCourse of the War and the Treaty of Madras
Importance 3/5 What to StudySecond Anglo-Mysore War (1780–84)
Causes of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCourse of the War and the Treaty of Mangalore
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThird Anglo-Mysore War
Travancore Dispute and Course of the War
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTreaty of Seringapatam (1792)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFourth Anglo-Mysore War
Wellesley's Case Against Tipu
Importance 2/5 What to StudyFall of Seringapatam and Its Outcome (1799)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEstimate of Tipu Sultan
Tipu's Military, Naval and Technological Initiatives
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTipu and the Jacobin Club
Importance 3/5 What to StudyDebates on Tipu's Religious Policy and Nationalism
Importance 3/5 What to StudyMysore After Tipu
Partition of Mysore and Its Later Rule
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Rise of the Marathas
The Maratha Confederacy and Its Five Houses
Importance 3/5 What to StudyWeakening of Peshwa Control After 1761
Importance 2/5 What to StudyEntry of the English Into Maratha Politics
Why the English Entered Maratha Politics
Importance 1/5 What to StudyFirst Anglo-Maratha War (1775–82)
Succession Dispute After Narayanrao
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTreaties of Surat and Purandhar
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCourse of the War and the Treaty of Wadgaon
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTreaty of Salbai (1782)
Importance 4/5 What to StudySecond Anglo-Maratha War (1803–05)
Background and Holkar's Victory at Hadapsar
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTreaty of Bassein (1802)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDefeat of the Bhonsle, Scindia and Holkar
Importance 3/5 What to StudySignificance of the Treaty of Bassein
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThird Anglo-Maratha War (1817–19)
Lord Hastings, the Pindaris and the Causes of the War
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCourse of the War and the Treaties with Maratha Chiefs
Importance 2/5 What to StudyEnd of the Peshwaship
Importance 3/5 What to StudyWhy the Marathas Lost
Internal Weaknesses of the Maratha State
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEnglish Advantages Over the Marathas
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Rise of Talpuras Amirs
Early English Trade in Sindh and the Talpura Amirs
Importance 1/5 What to StudyGradual Ascendancy Over Sindh
Wellesley's Early Approach to Sindh
Importance 1/5 What to StudyTreaty of 'Eternal Friendship' and Minto's Missions
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTreaty of 1832
Importance 2/5 What to StudyLord Auckland, the Treaty of 1838 and the Tripartite Treaty
Importance 2/5 What to StudySubsidiary Alliance of 1839 and the Annexation of Sindh (1843)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCriticisms of the Conquest of Sindh
Criticisms of the Conquest of Sindh
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Consolidation of Punjab Under the Sikhs
Sikh Polity After Banda Bahadur and the Dal Khalsa
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Misls
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRise of Ranjit Singh
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRanjit Singh and the English
Metcalfe's Mission and the Treaty of Amritsar (1809)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRanjit Singh's Later Expansion and Relations with the Company
Importance 2/5 What to StudyPunjab After Ranjit Singh
Court Factions and Successors After Ranjit Singh
Importance 2/5 What to StudyFirst Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46)
Causes and Course of the First Anglo-Sikh War
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTreaty of Lahore (1846) and the Transfer of Kashmir
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTreaty of Bhairowal (1846)
Importance 2/5 What to StudySecond Anglo-Sikh War (1848–49)
Causes and Battles of the Second Anglo-Sikh War
Importance 3/5 What to StudyAnnexation of Punjab and Its Early Administration
Importance 3/5 What to StudySignificance of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
Significance of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
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Two Methods of British Expansion
Importance 2/5 What to StudyWarren Hastings' Policy of Ring-Fence
Importance 4/5 What to StudyFeatures and Aims of the Subsidiary Alliance
Importance 5/5 What to StudyEffects of the Subsidiary Alliance on Indian States
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEvolution and Stages of the Subsidiary Alliance
Importance 3/5 What to StudyStates That Accepted the Subsidiary Alliance
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDoctrine of Lapse and Dalhousie's Role
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAnnexation of Awadh (1856)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyStates Annexed Under the Doctrine of Lapse
Importance 4/5 What to Study
Anglo-Bhutanese Relations
Anglo-Bhutanese Conflict and the 1865 Settlement
Importance 1/5 What to StudyAnglo-Nepalese Relations
Gorkha Expansion and the Anglo-Nepal Conflict
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTreaty of Sagauli (1816) and Its Gains for the British
Importance 3/5 What to StudyAnglo-Burmese Relations
British Motives in Burma and the First Burma War (Treaty of Yandabo)
Importance 4/5 What to StudySecond Burma War (1852)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyThird Burma War (1885) and Burma's Later Separation
Importance 3/5 What to StudyAnglo-Tibetan Relations
Curzon's Tibet Policy and the Younghusband Mission
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTreaty of Lhasa (1904) and Its Outcome
Importance 3/5 What to StudyAnglo-Afghan Relations
Auckland's Forward Policy and the Tripartite Treaty (1838)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFirst Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyJohn Lawrence and the Policy of Masterly Inactivity
Policy of Masterly Inactivity
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLytton and the Policy of Proud Reserve
Policy of Proud Reserve
Importance 3/5 What to StudySecond Anglo-Afghan War and the Treaty of Gandamak
Importance 3/5 What to Study
The Durand Line (1893)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCurzon's Frontier Policy and the North-West Frontier Province
Importance 2/5 What to Study