History: British Rule to East Pakistan (1757-1970) 
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Mikey Leung in 1. General Information, Podcast
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The British in Bengal
Europeans began landing on south Asia’s shores during the 16th century in an attempt to circumvent trading middlemen throughout central Asia. Other than establishing the region’s first foreign trading ports, the Portuguese managed to earn themselves reputations as fierce marauders but they never became anything more substantial than that. They were soon followed by Dutch, English and French traders, who fought wars with one another all over the subcontinent for positions of trading power. By the 17th century, the British East India Company had gained the upper hand in this conflict and had established a growing trading port in Calcutta. Despite the disintegration of the Mughal Empire through the early part of the 18th century, strong leadership in Bengal kept it economically powerful, further strengthened by its European trading connections.
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