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However, unable to obtain Japanese [[raw silk]] for import to China and with their trading area reduced to Hirado and [[Nagasaki]] from 1616 onwards, the company closed its factory in 1623.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Akira|last1=Hayami|title=Japan's Industrious Revolution: Economic and Social Transformations in the Early Modern Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-1rCQAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-4-431-55142-3|page=49|access-date=31 October 2015|archive-date=26 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426104735/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-1rCQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
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[[File:The English ask pardon of Aurangzeb.jpg|thumb|[[Kingdom of France|French]] illustration of [[Josiah Child|Sir Josiah Child]] requesting a pardon from the [[Mughal Emperor|Emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]]]]
The first of the [[Anglo-Indian Wars]] occurred in 1686 when the company conducted naval code against [[Shaista Khan]], the governor of [[Mughal Bengal]]. This later caused the Siege of Bombay and led to the intervention of [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]], and ultimately the English company was defeated and fined.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Conflict and Cooperation in Anglo-Mughal Trade Relations during the Reign of Aurangzeb|first=Farhat|last=Hasan|journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient|volume=34|issue=4|date=1991|pages=351–360|doi=10.1163/156852091X00058|jstor=3632456}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=John Company Armed: The English East India Company, the Anglo-Mughal War and Absolutist Imperialism, c. 1675–1690|first=James|last=Vaugn|journal=Britain and the World|volume=11|issue=1|date=September 2017}}
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==== Mughal convoy piracy incident of 1695 ====
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File:Captain Every (Works of Daniel Defoe).png|Depiction of [[Henry Every|Captain Every]]'s encounter with the Mughal Emperor's granddaughter after his September 1695 capture of the Mughal trader Ganj-i-Sawai
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==== Chronology ====
* 1757: 24 [[Pargana]]s of the [[Sundarbans]] annexed to [[Robert Clive|Clive]] after the [[Battle of Plassey]].<ref name="igi4-9">{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV|1909|p=9}}</ref>
* 1760: [[Northern Circars]] annexed.
* 1765: After defeat of [[Nawab Wazir of Oudh]] at the [[Battle of Buxar]], [[Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar|Major Hector Munro]] "obtained from the emperor" [[Shah Alam II]] the diwani, or right of revenue collection, of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.<ref name="igi4-9"/>
* 1773: "New territories acquired" from the [[Raja]] of [[Varanasi|Banares]].<ref name="igi4-10">{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV|1909|p=10}}</ref>
* 1775: [[Ghazipur|Nawab of Ghazipur]] defeated.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}
* 1795: [[Asaf Jah II]] the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] was defeated at the [[Battle of Kharda]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.indianmilitaryhistory.org/battles/baji%20rao%20I%20at%20Kharda.htm | title=Orders of Battle – Orders of Battle | access-date=27 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023221/http://www.indianmilitaryhistory.org/battles/baji%20rao%20I%20at%20Kharda.htm | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> after the [[Maratha-Mysore War]].
* 1799: Fall of [[Mysore]] after [[Siege of Seringapatam (1799)]];<ref name="igi4-10"/> [[Kadapa|Nawab of Kadapa]] and [[Kurnool|Nawab of Kurnool]] annexed.
* 1801: [[Nawab of the Carnatic]] (of [[Arcot]] and [[Nellore]]),<ref name="igi4-11">{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV|1909|p=11}}</ref> [[Nawab of Junagarh]], and [[Rohilkhand]] of Lower Doab annexed.
* 1803: [[Rohilkhand]] of [[Doab#Upper Doab|Upper Doab]] annexed; nonresistance from the [[Mughal Emperor|Emperor]]; [[Bahawalpur (princely state)|Nawab of Bhawalpur]] accepts borders with [[British India]].
* 1817 – 1819: Victory over [[Maratha Empire]]. [[Chatrapati]] (Maratha king) retained under British suzernity.
* 1848 – 1849: Victory over [[Sikh Empire]]. [[Punjab region]] up to [[Peshawar]] annexed
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|File:India1765and1805b.jpg|India in 1765 and 1805 showing East India Company Territories in pink.
|File:India1837to1857.jpg|India in 1837 and 1857 showing East India Company (pink) and other territories
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