ESTABLISHMENT OF

COMPANY RULE IN
INDIA

PRESENTED BY:-
SANKET PARIDA VIII C
DAV RAJABAGICHA
 ANGLO-MYSORE WARS
 The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of four
wars fought during the last three decades of
the 18th century between the Sultanate of
Mysore on the one hand, and the British
East India Company (represented chiefly by
the neighbouring Madras Presidency),
Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Travancore,
and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the other.
Hyder Ali and his succeeding son Tipu
fought the wars on four fronts: with the
British attacking from the west, south and
east and the Nizam’s forces attacking from
the north.[1] The fourth war resulted in the
overthrow of the house of Hyder Ali and Tipu
(the latter was killed in the fourth war, in
1799), and the dismantlement of Mysore to
the benefit of the East India Company,
which took control of much of the Indian
subcontinent.
 FIRST ANGLO-MYSORE WARS
 The First Anglo-Mysore War (1767 – 1769) saw
Hyder Ali enjoy some measure of success
against the British, almost capturing Madras.
The British convinced Nizam Mir Nizam Ali
Khan to attack Ali. That was temporary,
however, and the Nizam signed a new treaty
with the British in February 1768. Ali had to
contend with a British Bombay army attacking
on the west and a Madras army attacking from
the northeast. However, Hyder’s attack
towards Madras resulted in the Madras
government suing for peace, and the resultant
Treaty of Madras.
 Hyder Ali gained some success even against
the British and almost captured Madras. In
1767 the Nizam the Marathas and the English
made triple alliance against Hyder Ali of
Mysore as they were jealous of his increasing
power.
 SECOND ANGLO-MYSORE WAR
The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom
of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784. At
the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India, and the conflict
between Britain against the French and Dutch in the American
Revolutionary War influenced Anglo-Mysorean hostilities in India.
The great majority of soldiers on the company side were raised,
trained, paid and commanded by the company, not the British
government. However, the company’s operations were also
bolstered by Crown troops sent from Great Britain, and by troops
from Hanover,[1] which was also ruled by Great Britain’s King
George III.
 Following the British seizure of the French port of Mahé in 1779,
Mysorean ruler Hyder Ali opened hostilities against the British in
1780, with significant success in early campaigns. As the war
progressed, the British recovered some territorial losses. Both
France and Britain sent troops and naval squadrons from Europe
to assist in the war effort, which widened later in 1780 when
Britain declared war on the Dutch Republic. In 1783 news of a
preliminary peace between France and Great Britain reached
India, resulting in the withdrawal of French support from the
Mysorean war effort. The British consequently also sought to
end the conflict, and the British government ordered the
Company to secure peace with Mysore. This resulted in the 1784
Treaty of Mangalore, restoring the status quo ante bellum under
 THIRD ANGLO-MYSORE WAR
 The Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790–1792) was a conflict in South India
between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, the
Kingdom of Travancore, the Maratha Empire, and the Nizam of Hyderabad.
It was the third of four Anglo-Mysore Wars.
 The war resulted in a sharp curtailment of Mysore’s borders to the
advantage of the Marathas, the Nizam of Hyderabad, Travancore and the
Madras Presidency. The districts of Malabar, Salem, Bellary and Anantapur
were ceded to the Madras Presidency.
 Among the preliminary terms that Cornwallis insisted on was that Tipu
surrender two of his sons as hostages as a guarantee for his execution of
the agreed terms. On 26 February, his two young sons were formally
delivered to Cornwallis amid great ceremony and gun salutes by both
sides. Cornwallis, who was not interested in significantly extending the
company’s territory, or in turning most of Mysore over to the Marathas
and Hyderabad, negotiated a division of one half of Mysorean territory, to
be divided by the allies, in which the company’s acquisition would
improve its defences. He later wrote, “If we had taken Seringapatam and
killed Tipu,we must either have given that capital to the Marathas (a
dangerous boon) or have set up some miserable pageant of our own, to
be supported by the Company’s troops and treasures, and to be
plundered by its servants.The territories taken deprived Mysore of much
of its coastline; Mysore was also obligated to pay some of the allied war
costs.
 On 18 March 1792, Tipu agreed to the terms and signed the Treaty of
Seringapatam, ending hostilities.
 FOURTH ANGLO-MYSORE WAR
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the
Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the
Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–99.
 This was the final conflict of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British
captured the capital of Mysore. The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in
the battle. Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the
Wadiyar dynasty to the Mysore throne (with a British commissioner
to advise him on all issues). Tipu Sultan’s young heir, Fateh Ali, was
sent into exile. The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a
subsidiary alliance with British India covering parts of present
Kerala–Karnataka and ceded Coimbatore, Dakshina Kannada and
Uttara Kannada to the British.
 Napoleon Bonaparte’s landing in Ottoman Egypt in 1798 was
intended to further the capture of the British possessions in India,
and the Kingdom of Mysore was a key to that next step, as the ruler
of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, sought France as an ally and his letter to
Napoleon resulted in the following reply, “You have already been
informed of my arrival on the borders of the Red Sea, with an
innumerable and invincible army, full of the desire of releasing and
relieving you from the iron yoke of England.” Additionally, General
Malartic, French Governor of Mauritius, issued the Malartic
Proclamation seeking volunteers to assist Tipu. Horatio Nelson
ended any possibility of help from Napoleon after the Battle of the
THANK YOU