 Oh, it's our stupid director. It's a Corbin. I'm Rick. Hey, we got a little informational video about How? written Concord India So it's like one of those animated videos that we've seen so like yeah, they go over the history of it Obviously, we know that they did but I think this goes over like the beginning of ah how? Well in a nutshell they bent them over and screwed them up the butthole. I think that's what happened Yeah, I'm wondering how they got there They just took it took it Yeah, oh look at that place. I like it. I want it It was a little beer Doss stand-up that he did he's like the British came. Yeah, we're gonna take this. No, yeah, that's right Oh look, it's pretty I want it but it's mine doesn't matter Anyways, so Let's just get into this How many times has that happened in the world this place is so lovely? I want it It's mine with no with with any white conqueror with Britain and there's others that have done it that weren't white if you Go back in history. Yes, but the most current history most recent one most recent history is the white people have sucked It's the British Well, and then more recently America well, which was conquered by Brits, so it goes right back to great It's it's an arbolat. Yeah, here we go I square space whether you need a domain. I don't store or website make it with Hi, I'm Griffin Johnson. Well, I'm sure historian today's episode how the British Empire was able to assert control over India Suggested great analogy I do to the arm chair historian The Indian subcontinent was subjugated by an island more than 20 times smaller in size This unimaginable conquest of what would become the jewel in the British crown Greatly empowered the British Empire by the middle of the 19th century British rule led to a new wave of South Asian nationalist movements the effects to which are still felt to this day But we're not going to be delving into too much detail about the consequences of British rule Rather our goal is to evaluate what actions taken by the British and Indians alike paved the way for British rule in the first place In order to understand how the British were able to take control of India We need to go back to New Year's Eve on 1600 well into the reign of Elizabeth the first It was her signature on a royal charter granted to a group of adventure Merchants later known as the East India Company that would change the destinies of two nations forever However at the time the company's leaders were not yet interested in trading directly with the reigning Indian power of the time Instead they focused on competing with the Dutch French and Portuguese in the East Indies But over time the East India Company after being driven out of the East Indies shifted its focus on to the Indian subcontinent In 1640 a company representative Succeeded in securing a grant of land in southern India a pivotal moment as it marked the first time that Indian land was owned Directly by the English it was on this land that they constructed Fort St. George the settlement that grew around this region became the thriving city of Madras now known as Chennai and home to over 7 million people as more and more company owned for its sorry for what's right All over the Indian subcontinent the English became a leading exporter of spices Which in the words of Brian Gardner author of the East India Company had a considerable place in life? Men were prepared to die in search of them and many didn't no gift was more acceptable And to be well supplied was a mark of status. Wealth could be measured in spices The French English and Dutch all became similarly active in Indian affairs from the 17th century onwards with the Portuguese Already established in the region joining me now is our good friend history with Hilbert Who will be providing us with some background information on the Mughal Empire? As the 18th century commenced the Europeans became increasingly involved in Indian affairs They could afford to because the Mughal Empire which once ruled over not just the majority of India But also parts of modern day Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh was on the decline in the wake of very costly wars of conquest The Mughals suffered from repeated invasions by Persians, Afghans and other Indians in 1739 The Mughal capital Delhi was sacked by the Persian ruler Nadasha following the decisive battle of Kona And in 1748 Nadasha's protege the Afghan Ahmed Shah Durrani also led his armies into Mughal territory Beginning his own invasion. Due to these factors by the middle of the 18th century the Mughal Emperor took the role of a figurehead To many new empowered local rulers. If you'd like to check out my video that goes into more detail about the Mughals Then follow the link in the description below Thanks for joining us again over as the Mughals weekend the Maratha Kingdom and West of India was carving out an empire of its own Despite never eclipsing the Mughal Empire at its height the Maratha Empire remained as a dominant power in India for another 80 years or so As all of this was happening the East India Company began to overshadow its European competitors Devoting substantial profits to raising a private army in an effort to contend with the Maratha Empire and Bengal By now the East India Company benefited greatly from the country's imposing Navy Which enabled it to ferry more and more men to India than its European competitors As much as the company's military aided in its growth It was the less a fair policy that won over many local rulers to their side many of whom benefited Financially from their dealings with the company and did not perceive their sovereignty to be at risk of all the Europeans Who had established themselves in India? Oh, I never trust the French based in the south were now preeminent But under the daring Robert Clive the British East India Company's army was able to defeat both the Bengalis and their French allies at the Battle of Placie during these seven years were which by the 1760s allowed them to assert control over much of the Indian subcontinent Unchecked through direct territorial possession or indirect tributary arrangements to quote Gardner once more by the Treaty of 1763 the French forts taken by the company were returned to them some of them having been raised to the ground But the French never recovered and only six years later the French East India Company Collapsed although the stations remained in the possession of France during the British advance into the Indian Heartland It encountered staunch resistance from the Sikh Empire and other Indian states not interested in doing business with the English The Duke of Wellington who would later go on to defeat Napoleon won several victories against the estates while eating his brother Richard Wellesley who acted as governor general of India Consequently by the turn of the 19th century the Wellesley brothers had succeeded in leaving behind them the foundations of an empire Greater even that of Akbar himself As the middle of the 19th century drew closer and Indian national consciousness began to take form as Company rule Wider array of social and economic reforms being demanded from increasingly alienated local rulers These sentiments culminated in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 also known as the Sukhoi Which was brutally suppressed and concluded with the formal Dissolution of the Mughal Empire and the transfer of power from the British East India Company to Britain itself Palin now rested in the hands of the British crown directly and as the 19th century continued India's resources and the livelihoods of its people were exploited to fuel the industrial revolution in Britain Leading to a series of famines which shook the Indian economy to the core and left millions of Indians dead Thank you in the search. Oh, the British Empire now had millions of new subjects under its rule in India And imperial expansion wouldn't stop there I know that was there is not this time political vacuum left by the Mughal Empire in the wake of repeated invasions the failure of other Indian states particularly the Maratha Empire to fill that vacuum and Unify India the failure of other European powers to stop the British Britain's military and industrial superiority and the governing policy of the East India Company allowed Britain to take over the Indian subcontinent Now back to our sponsor Recently Squarespace has made my life a lot easier. This website building platform offers a wide array of customized design templates Yeah So the moral of the story kids is that Empire suck and and that's the British and and empires don't last Especially when you spread out like well, that's that's the nature of the beast. It's insatiable. Yeah Yeah, the nature of empire is insatiability. I need more. I need more and then it eventually eats itself Yep. Yep. That's that is what happens to empires first place I ever heard of the East India Trading Company Yeah, that's for a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah, I had heard of it before but it always brings you back to that They really didn't like Jack Sparrow. No, they didn't Apparently they also didn't like the Indians. No, apparently not. They like their resources Yeah, because they they that's that's exactly what it was and what they did, which is what empires do and sadly I'm learning more and more about how the United States has transitioned from Republic to Empire in ways that are nauseating to me and and it is the capacity to Basically bribe Blackmail. Yeah under the auspices of generosity by saying we will offer you this in exchange for this and because what I'm offering is so Attractive you do it thinking it's a good exchange and what it is is it becomes an indebtedness? Yeah, and then that indebtedness is asked to be repaid can't be and so that's taken And that was the intent all along. It was never generosity. No, it was always We're gonna do whatever we can to get this irrespective of what you want. Yeah. Yeah Really nice video. Yeah, it is He looks like he's 20 something but he carries himself like he's 78 You know, it's like if he's a historian. He's a historian. He's got stories and so interesting, but so boring But they're so interesting and also, you know that the The jewel that's in Queen Elizabeth Yes thing is it's a stolen jewel from India stolen jewel from India yet and they saw obviously stolen apologize for everything Correct, which is ridiculous. Yeah, I mean America also hasn't apologized for me Exactly what I was doing would just be nice to yeah, just I don't see the harm in acknowledging and apologizing like I don't I Know you didn't do it. I mean your family did it. No Didn't if I'm not mistaken. It was Barack Obama who went to Japan. Yeah, and apologized for Hiroshima and Nagasaki But then there's 10,000 other atrocities Native Americans Japanese Like there's there's so many So African Americans just a little bit Anyways, but that was a great video. So let us know what other informational videos we can react to We always enjoy those so please let us know down below