Description
The shabby traders of East India Company who had landed on the shores of the Indian sub-continent in the seventeenth century became the supreme power by the end of eighteenth century. The battlefield of Plassy proved to be the start of the deluge. The Indian rulers failed to obstruct the rising power of the traders turned rulers. The repressive policies and the neglect towards the local socio-political scene by the company were bound to cause the feelings of antipathy. By the second decade of nineteenth century the signs of abhorrence were becoming visible. There were occasional revolts and uprising against the company’s bigoted rule but the War of Independence of 1857 was the first organized effort to get rid of the shackles of British colonialist.