European arrival and Company expansion
Whole chapter · 16–24 focused hours
European arrival and Company expansion
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude Mughal institutions already studied in Medieval History; no second full reading of those chapters.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- European rivalry and the Carnatic wars (1740s to 1763)
- India on the eve of conquest: later Mughals, successor states and Panipat
- The conquest of Bengal: Plassey, Buxar and the dual system
- Anglo-Mysore and Anglo-Maratha wars
- Subsidiary alliance, doctrine of lapse and the annexations of 1843 to 1856
- Company expansion beyond Indian frontiers
- The early Peshwas to Panipat (1713 to 1761)
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power ↗
Trade, rivalry, conquest and annexation sections; administrative sections belong to Company administration.
- Understanding Eighteenth Century India ↗
Sections 15.1–15.2 and 15.4–15.8: decline and regional states; section 15.3 only for Peshwa authority and confederacy. Do not use its compressed Shahu succession sentence as a chronology.
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Units 1–2: late Mughal states, European competition and conquest; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 2, chapter 2, the Nepal, Burma and Afghanistan campaigns; historical context rather than present borders.