{"id":52956,"date":"2021-09-20T07:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=52956"},"modified":"2021-09-20T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:39:39","slug":"dupleix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/dupleix\/","title":{"rendered":"DUPLEIX : Medieval Indian History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The colonial administrator and governor-general of the French territories in India, Joseph-Fran\u00e7ois Dupleix, nearly realized his dream of establishing a French empire in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English sought help from the Nawab of Carnatic, Anwar Uddin. But the French concluded a treaty with his rival Chanda Sahib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English army crushed a defeat on the French in the Battle of Adyar, near Madras. In the meantime, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle was concluded in 1748 to end the Austrian Succession War. Thus the First Carnatic War came to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the English and French continued to take opposite sides in the internal politics of India. This had resulted in the Second Carnatic War (1749-1754).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dupleix supported the cause of Muzafar Jang, who wanted to become the Nizam of Hyderabad and Chanda Sahib, an aspirant for the throne of Arcot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The troops of these three defeated Anwar Uddin, who was with the British in the First Carnatic War, and killed him in the Battle of Ambur in 1749.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this victory, Muzafar Jung became the Nizam and Chanda Sahib the Nawab of Arcot. Muhammad Ali, son of Anwar Uddin escaped to Tiruchirappalli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he English sent troops in support of him. In the meantime, the British commander Robert Clive captured Arcot. He also inflicted a severe defeat on the French at Kaveripakkam. Chanda Sahib was captured and beheaded in Tanjore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile Dupleix was replaced by Godeheu as the French governor. The war came to an end by the Treaty of Pondicherry in 1754.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outbreak of the Seven Years War (1756-1763) in Europe led to the Third Carnatic War (1758-1763). Count de Lally was the commander of the French troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British General Sir Eyre Coote defeated him at Wandiwash in 1760. In the next year, Pondicherry was captured and destroyed by the British troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seven Years War came to an end by the Treaty of Paris inl763. The Third Carnatic War also ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French agreed to confine its activities in Pondicherry, Karaikkal, Matte and Yenam. Thus the Anglo-French rivalry came to a close with British success and French failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The causes for the French failure can be summed up as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Commercial and naval superiority of the English.<\/li>
  2. Lack of support from the French government.<\/li>
  3. French had support only in the Deccan but the English had a strong base in Bengal.<\/li>
  4. English had three important ports \u2014 Calcutta, Bombay and Madras but French had only Pondicherry.<\/li>
  5. Difference of opinion between the French Generals.<\/li>
  6. England’s victory in the European wars decided the destiny of the French in India.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The colonial administrator and governor-general of the French territories in India, Joseph-Fran\u00e7ois Dupleix, nearly realized his dream of establishing a French empire in India. The English sought help from the Nawab of Carnatic, Anwar Uddin. But the French concluded a treaty with his rival Chanda Sahib. The English army crushed a defeat on the French […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":52942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[1762,1781],"class_list":["post-52956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-notes","tag-medieval-indian-history","tag-the-coming-of-europeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52961,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956\/revisions\/52961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}