The Portuguese saved this state from the rule ... India in the year 1498 before the British. Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India, only after that the Portuguese started trading here ...

This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

The Company’s operations gradually expanded, and soon, it governed large parts of India. One of the most significant consequences of British rule was the draining of India’s wealth to Britain.