BRITISH EAST INDIA RULES ON ASIA AND PACIFIC 
                     BRITISH EAST INDIA 
RULES ON ASIA AND 
PACIFIC 
By Souvik Roy
INTRODUCTION ON BRITISH EAST 
INDIA COMPANY RULES
British rule started from 1858- 1947 it called 
British Raj. But East India company was start rules 
from 1700-1858 then East India Company was 
Hand over to it British Queen. East India Company 
ruled over India, Japan, China in the Asian 
subcontinent.
British East India 
Company rules 
on India:
British domination in India dated to 
the 1700s when the East India 
Company established forts and trading 
posts. India’s once-mighty Mughal 
(Mogul) Empire-founded in the early 
1500s by Babur, a Muslim conqueror of 
Turkish and Mongol ancestry-had 
fractured as Hindus re- belled, leaving 
local rulers to contend with the British. 
In 1757 British forces ousted the ruler 
of Bengal, who accused of killing British 
prisoners by confining them to a 
dungeon in Calcutta called
the Black Hole and replaced him with a 
compliant ruler, setting a precedent for 
the takeover of other Indian states. 
British East India 
Company rules 
on China:
British East India Company started 
rules on china. When China tried to halt 
that trade in 1839, British gunships 
intervened and crushed the antiquated 
Chinese fleet. China
British East India Company started rules 
on china. When China tried to halt that 
trade in 1839, British gunships intervened 
and crushed the antiquated Chinese fleet. 
China forcing to sign a treaty legalizing 
the opium trade and granting Britain 
control of Hong Kong. This blatant 
exercise of imperial which was then sold 
illegally in China. The power came as a 
humiliating blow to China’s own emperor. 
Qing dynasty had supplanted the Ming 
dynasty in the 17th century when 
Manchurian invaders called Manchus took 
power.
How Japan 
defeat East 
India 
Company
Japan escaped foreign domination by becoming an 
imperial power itself. Shocked when an American fleet 
entered Tokyo Bay (known then as Edo Bay) in 1853 to 
demand access, the Japanese restored imperial rule 
under Emperor Meiji and modernized their society by 
industrializing and building powerful armed forces that 
defeated China in 1895 and occupied Taiwan and other 
territories.
His imperial land grabs extended to remote Pacific 
islands when Captain James Cook explored for Britain. 
Many islands in the Pacific were too small for major 
colonization efforts such as Brit- ain undertook in 
Australia and New Zealand, settled in the early 1800s 
de- spite of opposition from the indigenous Maoris. But 
imperial powers seeking naval bases or trading stations 
in the Pacific competed even for tiny islands. France 
took over the Marquesas and made Tahiti a colony. 
Germany vied for control of Samoa and purchased the 
Carolines and Marianas from Spain. The U.S. annexed 
Hawaii and then seized the Philippines and Guam from 
Spain in a war fought over Cuba in 1898.
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