Asking this for my 5-year-old niece. I, myself am 21 years old, don’t know how exactly they did it and am exceptionally bad at Humanities.
I don’t quite understand how the Britishers convinced/bewitched/overruled the rulers of a nation. From what I understand, they struck deals and what-not. Can you please explain a **bird’s eye view** of the entire situation so that I can explain it to my niece?
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As others have said they used the carrot and stick approach, they were not the first or only empires to do this, it was a favoured tactic of the Romans.
You play nicely with us, we’ll look after you, you’ll have benefits that you would never get alone.
Don’t play nicely with us we’ll go play with your rivals, give them the benefits, or we’ll send our troops to dissuade you from being uncooperative – or both. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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