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| 1600 | | 1600 | ||
| | |English East India Company founded | ||
| | (later renamed "British East India Co.) | ||
| | |England | ||
| | |trade | ||
| | |colonialization | ||
|India | |||
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* formed for Indian Ocean trade | |||
* joint-stock company | |||
* seized control of the Indian subcontinent | |||
* had a private army 260,000 soldiers (double size of British army) | |||
* produced half of the word's trade revenue during the mid-1700s to early 1800s | |||
* Britain took over in 1858 and assumed direct control of India as a colony | |||
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|1674-1818 | |1674-1818 | ||
|Maratha Empire or Confederacy | |Maratha Empire or Confederacy | ||
* Hindu reconquest of the subcontinent | |||
|South Asia | |South Asia | ||
| | |religion | ||
|India | |India | ||
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| | * Hindu empire from the Western Deccan plateau | ||
* sought to establish "self-rule of Hindus" ("hindavi swaajya") | |||
* ended the Mughal Empire and ruled most of India until falling to the British East India Company | |||
|[[File:Maratha Empire in 1758.png|left|thumb|Maratha Empire, as of 1760]] | |||
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| 1687 | | 1687 |