>only indian states that ever possessed a threat to british colonist were Mysore and the Sikh empire, neither of them hindu
Why is this?
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>only indian states that ever possessed a threat to british colonist were Mysore and the Sikh empire, neither of them hindu
because hindus believe in a hierarchical caste system, when the east india company was able to supplant the pre-existing power structure they just fell in line
Mysore was Hindu.
I don't agree with OP but Tippu Sultan was Muslim.
In Empire Total Way they are Muslim therefore you are wrong.
forgot 3 Anglo-maratha wars
First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782)
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803-1805)
Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819)
not a single indian state ever presented a threat to Britain
not a single HINDU state ever presented a threat to Britain
not a single INDIAN state ever presented a threat to Britain
Sikhs, Afghanis and Mysoreans did threaten colonialist expansion, but not Hindu states
>Sikhs, Afghanis and Mysoreans did threaten colonialist expansion
dude stop coping. All of these were BTFO. Winning a battle of two doesn't mean shit
winning a battle or two means shit.
>loses over a thousand battles
>b-but we won once with no real effect on the situation
Major cope
>Major cope
projection
Actually the British empire weren't able to defeat the Sikhs in most battles. How they defeated them was that after the death of the founding Emperor, they encouraged vassal rajas to fight each other to inherit the kingdom. Once they broke out into full civil war, they took out the resisting Rajas with the combined forces of the Raja of Patiala, and the Raja of Kashmir. These two Rajas joined forces with the British because the British empire offered the king of Patiala kingship of the entire land of the Indus Valley, under the Queen, and the Raja of Kashmir complete freedom and additional provinces also under the Queen, along as they helped the British take over the area. After that the British gave these kings their promised land, where to even today their descendants are relevant in Indian politics.
But this is how the British actually took over many parts of India, by having medium sized kings join their force in exchange becoming major kings under the British empire. This is why half of British India were just Indian Rajas who had signed loyalty to the Queen.
>Actually the British empire weren't able to defeat the Sikhs in most battles
lmao pajeets are really this delusional
True, it is one of the most fascinating pieces of colonial history. The commanding General wrote that he would've have to give unconditional surrender had they pressed. Even Dalrymple said they would've won had they loyal and competent commanders.
It was the closed Brits came to deft in the sub-continent, not that they didn't gave way more resources to muster
>get wrecked by the british who conquer most of the subcontinent
>they also play divide and conquer with impotent pajeets screeching about how that's cheating
>pretend their princely states were actually independent from Britain
Again the British lost most battles against the unified Sikh empire, and only gained it's land after it capitulated form inner turmoil
They rag filled your entire race. You get mogged by Japanese girls in grip strength.
You are a pathetic people.
You alive by pure chance and in the future when you inevitably go extinct anthropologists who find you will think their instruments are flawed when they see your archaic hominid ass as being contemporary to humans.
>You get mogged by Japanese girls in grip strength
is this a new fetish
schizo paki stop lying marathas were hindus they fought anglos
The Marathas fell in the same way as the Sikh Empire after Ranjit Singh died. Also, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan were a minority within a minority by being Shia Muslims in a primarily Hindu state - they patronized temples as necessary and their armies were mostly Hindus. The king in the background was still a Hindu, it was just a 40 year dictatorship of the prime minister from 1761 to 1799.
>he got conquered by a minority of a minority
Conquered? Hardly. Hyder Ali rose up through the ranks of the Wodeyar court to become Prime Minister, then after he gained the king's trust, he executed a bloodless coup to put himself as generalissimo. It was palace intrigue, not war that put him in power.
stop lying marathas were hindus
Marathas were Muslims
0/10 bait but the pajeet will bite
THEY DO NOW HOWEVER
Hindus worshipped whiter skin.
If they're the whitest in the room, they think they're gods. If they're not the whitest then they worship the whitest guy.
The lesser races were never a threat to the British Empire.
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This is is a good video essay series of you actually want an answer.
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>Mughalempire is in ruins PRE British arrival
>Hindu powers are basically all under the thumb of Islamic rulers following the collapse of the vijayanagar empire
>The continent is splitting apart, with Maratha lords seizing entire provinces and the Peawiener thrown in Dehli being useless, supported only by the Semi-industralized Bengal province
>British seize the Bengal province over many years and kick the French out via the Seven Years War
>Mughal empire now so weak it is basically just a puppet throne for any local warlord
>seeing the writing on the wall, Hyderabad's Maratha Lords do a deal with the British and overnight switch to their camp
>Mysore were sworn eneimies of Hydrebad, and refused to be cowed
>took three wars to actually pacify them
Basically regional politics and being the last to kiss the British boot. You also need to remember in reference to Hindu's here that Islam politically dominated the continenat, but the vast majority of people were Hindu. So the Islamic Mysore Kingdom was actually primarily Hindu, and remains so today.
Little known fact but the states post Islamic-conquest in India were very weak, with the Mughal emperor only really being the strongest of the Deccan plataeu lords. The whole thing would have come crashing down eventually, its just that the British were there to take advantage. The rest is just standard divide and rule colonial conquest.
How did a bunch of pasty white homies from the other side of the globe do what streetshitters and persian larpers failed to do for more than a thousand years? Unite Bharat...
Controlling the India-Europe trade gave the Company a nice source of income that wasn't dependent on their Indian raja and zamindar supporters. Allowed them the fiscal space to implement absolutism. Plus all the British parliamentarians got shares in the company and were willing to send military expeditions to support the Company army (and their investments) when it got in trouble.
from your video, at 1:06
>throughout this period, most british strategy makers opposed and even tried to stop expansion
Why were they like this? They also stopped the American colonists going West, which was one of the cited reasons for the American war of independence.
It seems like the British stumbled into their empire completely against their own will and then threw it away.
You should look at the Edmund Burke speeches during the trial of Warren Hastings. Burke was a Tory but recoiled at the descriptions of the horrible famines that wracked Bengal under EIC rule. Unfortunately they got the wrong guy responsible for everything (Hastings was an Indophile but got blamed for the mistakes of his successor), but there were generally horrific mistakes in British rule