The key to the rise of British colonial power in India

With the defeat of Nawab Siraj Uddaula at Amrakan in Palashi on 23 June 1757, the path to British rule began not in Bengal but in the Indian subcontinent. After the victory of the British at Palashi, they did not take the power of Bengal directly into their hands and gave the throne to traitor Mir Zafar tactfully. But in 1860 the British replaced Mir Zafar with his son-in-law Mir Qasim. The East India Company removed Mir Zafar on suspicion of sabotaging their legitimate interests and established direct company rule in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. With the conquest of Palashi, Robert Clive laid the foundation of dual rule in Bengal. Under the influence of dual rule, the Famine of the seventy-sixth took place in Bengal. The rule of the East India Company that began with this was the suppression of the Sepoy Revolution of 1857 And the reign of the Company came to an end with the seizure of the throne of Delhi. But the Indian subcontinent was then exploited in a new way by coming under direct British rule. The entire Indian subcontinent was subjected to more than 90 years of British exploitation.

After the battle of Palashi's historical conspiracy drama at Palashi, the Merchant English began to increase their influence in this country and the subcontinent. The East India Company continued to move forward with firm steps to realize the dream of subcontinental rule and they continue to achieve success. After the defeat of Siraj Uddaula at Palashi and before the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian subcontinent was full of various political complexities.

After the Battle of Palashi, Muslims lost political dominance in the country and became the ruled class and ordinary tenant Muslims continue to be subjected to extreme exploitation.

The flattering Hindu community began to rise to the ruling class with the help of the British. Hindus treat Muslims as if seeking revenge for a long 550 years of rule in order to regain power. The East India Company took power from the Muslims as a result of the battle of Palashi. As a result, the East India Company continued to rule the Muslims with suspicion at all times. The British rulers of the company continued to help the Hindus so that the Muslims would not regain power and would not get a chance to revolt. Although the British contributed immensely to the socio-economic development of the Hindus and they continued to exploit the Muslims. In order to keep Muslims away from all of tenant opportunity, the company continues to discriminate. Especially Muslims lag behind in education. Again, the Muslim masses did not get the kind of flexible rule they used to get from the Nawabs in the past, but continued to have a rebellious attitude all the time. Such mental state of Muslims, Hindus and British Company greatly influenced the rule of the Company and the British rule. As a result, it did not take long for the ruled Muslims of Bengal to become a half-dead nation. Due to lack of education and political intrigue and anti-English attitude, Muslims lost all their traditions and heroism and became a cowardly loyal nation.

With the Amrakanan incident at Palashi, the political situation of the locals in the Indian subcontinent continued to deteriorate with the growing British rule. English merchant companies resorted to various strategies to collect more revenue. The company was instrumental in smuggling money to their home country Britain, without ever thinking of developing the Indian subcontinent regime people. Due to this situation, the Fakir Sanyasi Rebellion against the British from 1780, the Peasant Rebellion of Rangpur, the Chuar Rebellion of Medinipur and Banchura (1798-99), the Tipu Sultan Rebellion of Mysore (1799), the Polygar Rebellion (1799-1801), the Santal Rebellion (1855), the Nationalist Sepoy Rebellion of the Subcontinent in 1857, the Blue Rebellion (1839-45), Nile Rebellion (1859-60) and the Kuka Rebellion (1872).

Apart from these revolts and many Muslim movements in the Indian subcontinent, the throne of British political rule was intimidated. The Wahhabi Movement and the Battle of Balakot (1771-1831), the Faraji Movement, the Narikel Baria Rebellion at Titumir (1831) were movements for the oppressed Muslims under the British rule and for their religious consciousness.

The biggest influence in the politics of the subcontinent was the emergence of conspiracy politics after the victory of the British in the historical drama of Palashi. Conspiracy politics have not been observed in Muslim rule in India for a long time. It was through conspiracy that the British conquered Palashi and it was through conspiracy that they strengthened the foundations of their rule in India. In South India, Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan fought fiercely with the British. The British Company could not defeat him in any way. So, the conspiracy of Palashi was revived by the British forces. The English defeated Tipu Sultan and captured Srirangapatna by creating a traitor in Tipu Sultan's army.

In 1831, the Mujahid forces of Syed Ahmad Brelvi were also defeated by traitors in the desert of Balakot. As a result, the locals could not defeat them in the game of politics of this conspiracy of the English. The British were cunning to conspire with the Hindus to suppress the Muslims, again with the Marathis to suppress the Sikhs, and sometimes with the Sikhs to suppress the Marathis. The conspiracy rule that the British taught us to rule the Indian subcontinent for almost 200 years is still being observed in our politics. The British “Divide and Rule” policy was the most effective in India.

After Palashi, the British started interfering directly in the politics of Bengal rule. Later, the British gradually occupied the adjoining states of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Bombay and Madras. The East India Company conquered South India by conquering the Anglo-Mysore War (1766-99) and the Anglo-Maratha War (1772-1818) and completely cleared their trade routes. As a result, the company became more and more economically and politically prosperous and began to exert a single influence over the weak Mughal rulers of India. The company after another took final steps to seize control of India by establishing British domination over the whole of India through the occupation of North-Western Provinces (Rohilkhand, Gorakhpur and Doab Territories), Delhi-Indus, Punjab, North-West Frontier Provinces, Kashmir. The secession of the Sepoy Revolution in 1757 gave the British a real opportunity to seize power in the entire Indian subcontinent and put an end to the long 330 years of Mughal rule. The Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah was exiled to Rangoon and the whole Indian subcontinent came under British rule. That is when India directly became a part of the British Empire.

A small handful of East India Company merchants gave the British army, which had won the conspiracy in the desert of Palashi, a long way to rule over the vast India.