History Encylopedia

       In this part of the encyclopedia i'm reading about British in the Indian subcontinent.The Britsh east india company controlled a large amount of trade in India and had a lot of political power the Mughal empire was declineing very fast.The british also controlled alot of land. By 1807 the mughal empire  had ended after 300 years the last  emperers were only figure heads of the british the last one was Bahadur Shah Zafar he was depoesed in 1807 and exield to Burma. Most of the kingdoms were under the control of the british they exploited the subcontinent and left millions of people in poverty and iliterate.