Exploration Of The Relationship Between British East India Company And Nepal

British East India Company was founded in 1600. Firstly, it was only a stock company with a royal charter, then by virtue of its privileges of India’s trade in the eastern regions and its strong economic and military strength, it gradually overcome Holland, France and other Western powers, and entered and hosted in India successfully. At the end of eighteenth Century and early nineteenth century, it reached a peak stage. After the battle of Plassey in the 1757, the British East India Company had consolidated its rule in India and entered its heyday. In order to open the trade routes between Tibet and Northern India, the East India Company had planned to open up the northern trade routes, by which the East India Company met Nepal which states on the only way of the northern trade routes must be passed. As a result of Gurkha’s conquest and unification to the valley of Nepal, the plane of north routes which had just finished had come to a deadlock. All attempts of East India Company to open the door of Nepal for trade had failed. With the execution of military expansion policy of Nepal and the border conflicts of both sides intensify, the war between the British East India Company and Nepal which from 1814 to1816 broke eventually. After the war, thanks to Nepal’s "anglophile policy" to the East India Company and the Company’s netting measures which based on non- interference to Nepal, the relationship between the two sides had entered a relatively peaceful and stable period of history. However, in the 1930 s, along with the stepping down of Prime Minister Thapa, the emotion of anti-British had risen in Nepal, the East India Company had to adopt active interference policy, which had worsen the relationship between Nepal and the East India Company. The serious consequences of active interference policy forced the East India Company to adopt the prudent policy in the 1842, which characters by non- interference. Soon the General Jung assumed power and Nepal adopted anglophile policy, which opened the new era of Nepal’s anglophile policy. In 1858, Queen Victoria’s “To the people of India book” officially declared the end of the rule of East India Company in India. Thus, the relations between East India Company and Nepal ware replaced by the relations between the British government with Nepal.