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I love how he stops saying "England" and starts saying "Britain" after 1707 because Scotland joined the union in 1707, brilliant attention to detail!

It's like what Dr. Shashi Tharoor said in famous Oxford speech - "The sun never sets on the British Empire because even God can't trust the British in the dark." Brilliant and very, very true! 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Persians, Dutch, French, British, Portuguese, etc many nations had invaded India because of its riches... Even in London you find many museums where sovegniors robbed from India are present which are worth billions..

Just the name India brings atleast half a million views.

You missed one 'Divide and Rule'

The word loot comes from Hindi

“If you see two fish fighting in water, you can be sure an Englishman passed by five minutes ago.”

British:yes it's mine all India Portugal:no GOA it's mine

So in short, the British did all that conquering in search of..spices? Thats right, European food was so bland and tasteless that they were willing to die in search of flavor 😂 can't make that up!

carribean: west indies indonesia: east indies india: am I a joke to u

The "enemy of enemy is friend" attitude of rulers killed India. That's a fact.

everybody: figthing everywere in india portugal: just chiling in goa

In short- They came as traders, Obtained trade rights from local rulers, misused trade rights, governor of bengal took action, his general was paid off and brits took control of bengal, brits used local rulers against other rulers to gain control of certain region, Subsidary alliance was established with many of local kings allowed deployment of british army in nearly whole India. Doctrine of lapse was imposed mamy kingdome were took over by brits(why they did not resist? Because british army was already deployed in their kingdoms). In 1857 indians revolted, british crown took control, Nationalist movements rose and India gained independence in 1947.

Somebody: "What? You say corporation so powerful that it has power over a nation? You've watched too many cyberpunk movies!" > Meanwhile British East India Company in 1750

Literally in every video with "Britain" in the title: “If you see two fish fighting in water, you can be sure an Englishman passed by five minutes ago.”

Fun fact: the Indian subcontinent was the wealthiest region in the world controlling more than 25% of the world GDP up until the late 1700s when the British started gaining more and more power in the subcontinent. Then the Chinese took over that title.

Fun facts- At this point of time in history, India controlled about 40% of global trade.

In short.... Europeans came to trade spices India was in a civil war The Brits beat the other Europeans The Brits eventually swept through the rest of the sub-continent

It's crazy how a company could take over an entire subcontinent.

Long live the British

So basically the Persians were the "invaders" in the subcontinent whereas the British were the "conquerors"?, you are so British sir.

Indians defeated India

Title should have been " biggest theft in history".

looking back at old videos makes me realize how much the artwork has improved over the years. keep up the good work!

Portugal just stood there like "Not my business * whistles nonchalantly * "

As history, The British​er came as a friend and later became enemy.. never let a fox enter in your chicken house.....

Well sir, being an Indian I agree we weren't having the unity among the 547 princely states or kingdoms. Taking the opportunity of which the British annexed multiple kingdoms. What Lord Wellesley said was wrong about Akbar's rule, because emperor Jalal Uddin Akbar's Mughal Empire which was vast and also covered the land of Marathas and the Sikhs, was also the richest state in the world, having a lot of gold, diamond, pearls and spices under its earth. However The British exploited the land resulting in the widespread poverty in India since 1970s...

No joke, my history teacher is using this video as part of his Indian Colonization lesson. I was shocked when I saw one of my subscriptions featured in school

British: Ah India! The land of spices and whooops... accidentally conquered everything.

Portugal didn't need to rule all India just the best part: GOA

Crazy, a population of 10 million conquered a population of 260 million.

British east India company did some brilliant scheme to pull it off 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😳😳😳

I never thought I would see the Admiral Ackbar meme referring to the colonization of India

"Trade with is" "No" "Trade with us" "No" "Fine. Get invaded"

The battle of Plassey is a history of betrayal. Mir Jaffor is still remembered for his betray

The only people to blame are the Indians themselves. They didn't want to unite against a *common* *enemy* . This is the same reason why the Muslims could take over the entire subcontinent: A lot of local kings joined the British or Muslims to fight against other Indian kings. Don't blame the British for their tactics. Blame your own stupidity for failling into it.

Many people here are asking why Indians are so hell bent on accusing the British for the destruction of the Indian subcontinent whereas the Chinese do not seem to hold grudge towards British. Because China was never a colony of British . They occupied some ports and some small patches of land. They just forced Chinese dynasty to accept trade practices which were more favorable towards the British. Whereas British exploited India and its resources to its core. A subcontinent which was one of the richest before the arrival of British was left in shambles. The harmony between the people of different religion and language of the country was totally destroyed. India has been the country which accepted every faith and the assimilation between them was wonderful. But the British knew that they couldn't capture this land without dividing them. So they started providing incentives to the kingdoms which were searching for conquest and captured others kingdoms. Eventually when they became more stronger they overthrew all the kings and only puppet kings were allowed to rule. Remember that when British left , they left a India with 500 princely states not an united one which all of you seem to think. It was the leaders of India mainly Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel who united all of them. The fact that we were deprived of the Industrial Revolution and all the resources annoys us the most. The Indians in general don't hold any grudge towards the present UK, but it pisses us when they act like ignorant children and do not owe the reparations. We are not asking for any economic help since you must know that we would surpass Britain by the end of this Year in terms nominal GDP, we just want you to accept that you also did many atrocities in the past. And I would suggest all of the people to study History and do a web search before posting these type of ignorant questions. Good luck to all of you.

The battle of passey wasn't fought 'bravely' by Clive. In fact, the British didn't have to fight that much at all as Clive had bribed a sizable regiment of sirajuddaulah's army, led by mir jafar. Many of the company's wars were won by bribes, not fighting

The Bengal famine was their own damn fault for breeding like rabbits - Winston Churchill

India as a nation never really existed until the British consolidated its borders under their rule. Until the 1700s 'Indian' actually referred to the inhabitants of the Indus river valley, a name actually given to them by the ancient Greeks. When the British entered the arena, India was technically a collection of kingdoms with two major players, the Mughals and the Marathas, which were at constant war with one another in the same way that Germany, Japan and China were prior to their eventual unification. Up to the 1700s calling a Maratha, Sikh, Rajput or Mughal an Indian would either confuse or amuse them in the same way that considering all native Americans the same would, instead of recognizing the different tribes - Sioux, Apache, Cherokee etc. The people of that era were not stupid. They were just overwhelmed by the machinations of a much more powerful and united enemy.

Really impressed with the increased production value and skill in this video! I especially like the dynamic maps, timelines, and labels! Keep up the awesome work!

Great video. But i think you failed in stating the religious and ethnic differences between the various factions of nowadays India. It wasn't as simple as " the Marathans failed to unify India" to this day India still face huge religious and ethnic tensions.

Whole INDIAN SUBCONTINENT was never under British Rule. In Northeastern India, Tripura (then known as Hill Tippra Kingdom) remains independent till 1949 until it joined Indian Union

Something often glossed over is the oppression and subjugation carried out by the British. Millions of Indians died as a direct result and the world's biggest economy at the time collapsed. This video did a good job of pointing it out instead of glorifying British imperialism.

Forgive but don't forget.

Can you do one where how Great Britain lost all of its colonies

Ngl, we as Indians must thank the world wars which helped immensely in depleting the resources of the British to maintain an army after the WW2 in a faraway country and ofc mainland chaos

"Walk wide of the widow at Windsor, for half of creation she owns." ~Kipling.

No doubt British were racist and looter.But They were better than cruel, uneducated, beast,thief,superstitious Indian Raja(King) and Zamindar for sure.They did some great philanthropist job for India and Indian,no one can deny that. They established laws in India and saved us from cruel,greedy Indian Raja and Zamindar.I'm an Indian,I've read some English administrator books like"Memories Of a Bengal Civilians "," Confession Of a thug"Raj:The making and Unmaking "etc and Some Indigenous author's book " Six Acre and a third","autobiography of Fakir Mohan",Munsi Premchand books.These books have changed my mind.From these book I've concluded that if British hadn't come to India,India would have divide into thousands pieces and ruled by some morons.We Indian have been taught and heard that British were cruel,racist and looters,of course they were...but they were less cruel,racist, looter than greedy Indigenous King and Zamindar.India is poor because of corruption and illiteracy, not because of British.After a huge loot made by British, we had a chance to rebuild our nation but we're busy in politics...don't abuse them.

Sad about the loss of life in India, all for profit and gain - I guess all empires existed for this reason. Thank God this is mostly in our past. India has a glorious history and friendly people. Peace from the UK ✌

I am a Desi Pakistani and I feel that the British Empire in terms of Economics and Politics exploited and unmade the Indus peoples took our resources and reduced our dignity to dirt, but India Pakistan and Bangladesh have not even dared or do to rehabilitate and dignity and land nation and society. Therefore I testify its not the British Empire's fault anymore especially something that was in the colonial era. I believe this is my history too and the Indian Subcontinent are my people. In 1947 when partition came to India and split the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan it was due to Indian leader doing and economic and social compromise with the British especially the leaders under Gandhi and his ring of leaders. They weren't considerate to the Indian people let alone not serving our need wants and interests. Jinnah was a lot worse he divided the Desis between hindu and muslims reating into breaking the subcontinent and making a uncertain nation called Pakistan and destroyed Generations after he later made Pakistan into a commonwealth nation under the newly form U.K.

Navy guns > Sticks End of the story

Who will win? A billion Indians Or Some spice trading boys? 😂

Its so much fun looking at the result of the video after tuning into the livestream of the editing of it.

Its really interesting because I'm from India but I live in England lol

India wasn't the jewel in the crown. It was the complete Crown

There would have been no British colony in india if the mugals and shiks had listened to Gorkhas(Nepal). The Nepali prime Minister Vimseen thapa had sent letters to both the kingdoms for aid to drive away the Britians from Asia but they had rejected. And rest is history Nepal was never colonalized and all other kingdoms were.🤣

My Grandparents were from the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore, which was not directly ruled by the British in the South. The British helped us fight Tipu Sultan in the North and then we became a sort of protectorate. An example of this is that we didn't send our army to help them fight World War 1, while other parts of India did.

How to colonize a territory: - Eng, Fr, Neth, Bel: Erase the locals or confine them to reserves, repopulate with your own people, build factories and plantations, get some slaves to work in them, enrich the whites through trade and exploitation of resources, turn it into a puppet/failed state, never totally leave. - Rome, Greece, Spain: Conquer the land by war and agreements, alphabetize and convert the locals, make them your own citizens, build universities, temples and cities, enrich the whites and the locals through trade and exploitation of resources, get looted by your enemies, collapse. - Portugal: Lets do both!

This is what happens the world over, places with riches and resources get soft and stagnate, they sit on them and someone else comes along to take it.

Would you like to do the Anglo-SIkh wars? I think it would be an interesting subject to cover considering that the Sikh armies were comparable to that of the British at the time.

We should never forget this Horrible Era,but never blame the modern day Britishers for the crime their fathers committed.

How UK captured India? Ans - By betrayel

Make another video about why the French, dutch, british etc people were soo much in search of India...

Unity is a key for a Nation to survive, which untill now we never learned.Earlier it were Kings now the polictians.

Boy you give them a piece of land they want everything smh

Thanks for this wonderful video..I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Should have mentioned the Treachery of Mir Jaffar that helped British overcome Siraj U Daula in Bengal

the map of mughal india is not properly represented. you forgot the policy of DIVIDE AND RULE used by the british. Also many princely states existed, and india was never a country then, but many kingdoms.

just a reminder that it's pronounced CH-EN-NAI, not SHEN-AI

WHY TO BLAME THE BRITS WHEN OUR OWN PEOPLE SOLD US AND OUR LAND TO THE FOREIGNERS?? BACK TO 21st Century, I want my country, India to have peace and prosperous relationship with U.K. I want my country to progress so that the living standard of the poor people could elevate to an extend where they won't have to struggle to make for living. I know well there were no humble British citizen was directly involved in such mess that happened in the Indian subcontinent. The inhuman ultra-elite always have the tendency to ripped off the common man to support their own lavish lives. Same is true for every country in the world were ultra rich are drafting the policies according to their wish and common men are suffering.

By the way I encourage you guys to look up the battle of Palasi, where the Bengal Sultanate was betrayed by it's own high command...

Indians were fighting for independence from Mughal with Maratha empire, but then Persians came from west and English from South and East with new weapons and tactics which indians were not aware of. So the due to timing the english got the opportunity admist the already on going chaos

the difference in mentality between Chinese and indians are rather interesting, Indians on any videos related to British rule often talk about how Britain plundered the indian subcontinent, yet in videos in Chinese about western attempts to colonize China, Chinese would often talk about the incompetence of Qing dynasty, and their failure to modernize, they put more blame on themselves, "why didn't we industrialize", whereas indians, it's all about it's someone else's fault. very interesting.

I love how the British Empire was so huge that they invaded a whole country so they could have tea and used an entire continent as a prison.

Sri lanka is not a part of India btw

With British support, India became the call center of the Western World. We should be glad that the British developed so much of India during their reign.

“More than 20 times smaller?” Oh, you mean one-twentieth the size or 5% the size.

Because of Indians you all are rich and live happy .

The Mutiny, (supported by less than 1% of the sub-continent's population) , was put down by British led native troops.

The key board warriors are un bearable

From India ..Love British

The title is wrong , it should say enslaved India

It was a mess before we were there, it was a mess while we were there and it’s a mess after we’ve left. India simply isn’t meant for civilised society, not until there is dramatic societal change.

0:40 bruh moment

Most powerful empire God ever granted the world 🇬🇧🇦🇮🇦🇺🇧🇲🇮🇴🇻🇬🇨🇰🇰🇾🇫🇯🇫🇰🇮🇲🇲🇸🇰🇮🇳🇿🇳🇺🇵🇳🇬🇸🇸🇭🇹🇨🇹🇻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And the sun still ain’t set

Conquered? You mean "won their trust in the name of business and trade and then stab them in their back"

Why are indians and europeans clashing in this comment section? At the moment we are strong allies and india is beside south korea and japan the only stable democracy in asia.

This video left out a lot of key events that resulted in British expansion into the South Asian subcontinent. One event or occurences of events was the wars the British had with Tipu Sultan, in alliance with France, in the Anglo Mysore Wars. This led to the British expansion into Southern India after defeating Tipu Sultan.

How did Britain conquer India? Like everywhere else, with death and fire

I'm an indian and I've been taught all of this from head to to in my history classes. I'm watching it just because it's an armchair historian video🤷‍♂️

If you ever find yourself kicking around Red Fort; sneak on up to the outdoor throne area. There's a wall there that was hit by British cannon ball which has been left exactly as it was that day. Really gives you a feel for the situation there at that time.

British never conquered India they defeated a group of kingdoms in subcontinent by taking advantage of their domestic clashes

I'm an Indian

The British Empire was brutal, hopefully sth. like this won‘t happen again

Thanks for adding the music, much appreciated.

As an Indian I can say that british used dirty tricks

Great video, as a Bangladeshi this video actually helped me a lot in history & literature thanks!!

Man...these comments are toxic