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The document summarizes the history of how trade relations between the East India Company and India evolved into territorial control by the Company. It details how the Company was granted trading rights under Aurangzeb in the 1600s. As the Mughal Empire declined, the Company took advantage of instability in Bengal to secure victories over local rulers at the Battles of Plassey in 1757 and Buxar in 1764. This allowed the Company to become the tax collector of Bengal and establish control over more Indian sta
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- ABHINAV 8-C
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- EN