British East India Trading Company

After the 7 years war, the British and French went to India to
colonize. The slow colonization began with the British East India
Company, a trading company that began in the Mughal Empire and traded
between India and the British. It began as just a trading company, but
slowly the Brittish began to take more and more power away from India
and putting it into the hands of Brittish rulers. The trade became
umbalenced when the Brittish began trading cottton for textiles which
was far more beneficial to the Brittish than India. The colonization
was purely economic, based solely on the expansion of Britan's
economy. The Brittish put in a string of puppet rulers into India and
by the 19th century they were in almost complete control of India. By
1857 it became a Brittish territory.