Ka cika wannan jumlar: 'Yan kasuwa 'yan Turai sun fara zuwa gabar tekun Indiya sa'ad da ɗan bincike ɗan ƙasar Portugal Vasco da Gama ya isa tashar jirgin ruwa ta Calicut a shekara ta 1498, don neman kasuwancin kayan ƙanshi mai riba. Fiye da ƙarni ɗaya bayan haka, Yaren mutanen Holland da Ingilishi sun kafa wuraren kasuwanci a yankin Indiya, tare da farkon tashar kasuwancin Ingilishi da aka kafa a Surat a shekara ta 1613. A cikin karni na goma sha bakwai da farkon karni na goma sha takwas, Birtaniyya ta ci nasara da Fotigal da Holland a soja amma ta ci gaba da rikici da Faransawa, waɗanda a lokacin suka nemi kafa kansu a cikin yankin. Raguwar Daular Mughal a farkon rabin karni na goma sha takwas ya ba Birtaniyya damar kafa kafa a cikin siyasar Indiya. Bayan Yaƙin Plassey a 1757, wanda a lokacin sojojin Indiya na Kamfanin Indiya na Gabas ta Gabas karkashin Robert Clive suka ci Siraj ud-Daulah, Nawab na Bengal, Kamfanin ya kafa kansa a matsayin babban ɗan wasa a harkokin Indiya, kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka ya sami ikon gudanarwa a kan yankunan Bengal, Bihar da Midnapur wani ɓangare na Odisha, bayan Yaƙin Buxar a 1764. Bayan nasarar Tipu Sultan, yawancin Kudancin Indiya sun kasance a ƙarƙashin mulkin Kamfanin kai tsaye, ko kuma a ƙarƙashin ikon siyasa na kai tsaye a matsayin wani ɓangare na masarauta a cikin kawancen mata. Daga baya Kamfanin ya kwace iko da yankunan da Masarautar Maratha ke mulki, bayan ya kayar da su a jerin yaƙe-yaƙe. An haɗe Punjab a 1849, bayan nasarar sojojin Sikh a cikin Farko (1845<unk>1846) da
Na biyu (1848<unk>49) Yaƙe-yaƙe na Anglo-Sikh.