How did Britain gain control of India? Part 1

Part 1 of a very straightforward presentation on how Britain gained controlled of India.

With simple learning objectives…

• Describe India a) before the Europeans arrived and b) shortly after the Europeans arrived
• Describe the EIC

… the presentation offers a brief history of India from the 15th to 20th century, using simple maps, before describing the importance of trading stations and the East India Company.

The aim of the presentation was to summarise British expansion in India so that all my GCSE students could get to grips with the main ideas; it’s an introduction not a detailed analysis of British imperialism in Asia!

Suitable for many GCSE History specs:

• AQA GCSE History: Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day (an option in Section A of Paper 2 - Thematic studies).

• Edexcel GCSE History. It will offer some perspective to issues within the ‘British America, 1713–83: empire and revolution’ unit (a period study option in Paper 2) and help students understand what the British were up to in Asia whilst colonising north America.

• OCR GCSE History A. Links to the section on the growing trade with India and China and role of the East India Company within the Paper 3 British depth study - Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730.

• OCR GCSE History B - Schools History Project. Links to the Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 section within the Paper 1 thematic study - Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present; difficult to do an overview of ‘the growth in world trade’ without mentioning India & EIC.