• Middle eastern colonization of the territory during its birth is greatly important.

It explains
the prosperity of the nation before British occupation due to Middle Eastern advancement
finding its way there. The gupta Empire also traded with the Roman Empire, allowing
protection and further cultural and historical development.

• This is not an conquest of a hostile yet rich territory with no industry or systematic
organization whatsoever like the scramble for Africa. This is the exploitation of unrest after
the fall of the Mughal Empire. 5 dynasties had held the territory across 300 hundred years.

• The East British company was established as a British response to the Portuguese and
Spanish control of eastern trade