4 B. The Company's conquest (the legal mechanics — the exam's law-facultyedge)

1. Plassey (1757 — Clive over Siraj-ud-Daula: bribery's battle — the Bengal bank funding the coup) and Buxar (1764 — the combined Mughal force defeated) → the Diwani of Bengal,Bihar and Orissa (1765 — the Mughal emperor granting the Company the revenue rights ofits richest province: conquest wearing a Mughal legal cloak — sovereignty by sanad).2. The Raj assembled: the subsidiary-alliance system (Hyderabad, Oudh — protection for tribute and resident); Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse (annexing princely lines without"natural" heirs — adoption disallowed — law as annexation's instrument); the armies (sepoys under British officers); the civil service (Haileybury's covenanted elite — the "steel frame").3. The land-law revolution (the paragraph for law students): the Permanent Settlement(1793 — Cornwallis: zamindars made proprietors, the revenue fixed forever — property law remaking an entire society: the landlord's rise, the ryot's fall) vs the ryotwari settlement (the peasant taxed direct — Munro's school): the two great agrarian-legal experiments; famine policy's failures; the drain of wealth (the "home charges") — the colony's economic constitution.4. The rule's legal form: Parliament's awakening — Regulating Act 1773 and Pitt's IndiaAct 1784 (a Board of Control — the Company supervised), then the Government of IndiaAct 1858 (below): the double government's slow legal nationalisation.