India Map 1785: Who Ruled India Then?

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India Map 1785 CE — Historical Map & Timeline

A commercial corporation turns revenue, armies and alliances into expanding colonial power.

The interactive map shows the atlas’s nearest drawn reconstruction (c. 1793 CE). Frontiers moved in between, so use the list of powers below for 1785 CE.

Who ruled India in 1785 CE?

In 1785 CE, power in the subcontinent was shared among 10 major states and dynasties. Dates are conventional estimates.

Mughal Empire — Later Mughal emperors (1707 CE–1857 CE)
Northern India, and at its height most of the subcontinent. Founded by Babur after Panipat; nominal rule ended in 1857. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Mughal dynasty · Read: The Mughal Empire
Maratha Swarajya and Empire — Peshwa-led confederacy (1749 CE–1818 CE)
Western Deccan, later much of central and northern India. From Shivaji Maharaj's coronation in 1674 to the Third Anglo-Maratha War. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Maratha · Read: Maratha Swarajya and Expansion
East India Company rule
Bengal from 1757, expanding across the subcontinent. A trading company turned territorial power after Plassey, until the Crown took over in 1858. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — East India Company · Read: The Battle of Plassey
Hyderabad State (Nizams)
Deccan; capital Hyderabad. Asaf Jahi Nizams, the most populous princely state, integrated into India in 1948. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Hyderabad historical state India
Kingdom of Mysore
Southern Karnataka. Wodeyar kingdom, independent of Vijayanagara from about 1610; under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan from 1761 to 1799. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Wadiyars
Mewar (Sisodia Rajputs)
Southern Rajasthan; capitals Chittor, later Udaipur. Rajput kingdom of Rana Kumbha, Rana Sanga and Maharana Pratap; a princely state under British paramountcy from 1818, merged into Rajasthan in 1949. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Udaipur (historical state)
Ahom kingdom
Brahmaputra valley, Assam. Ruled the Brahmaputra valley for six centuries until the Treaty of Yandabo. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Ahom
Portuguese India (Goa, Daman and Diu)
Goa and coastal enclaves. Goa was taken in 1510 and remained Portuguese until 1961. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Goa
Travancore
Southern Kerala. Kingdom of Marthanda Varma; merged into Travancore-Cochin in 1949. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Travancore
Awadh
Central Uttar Pradesh; capitals Faizabad and Lucknow. Nawabi state annexed by the East India Company in 1856. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Awadh

What happened in India around 1785 CE?

1770 CE: Great Bengal famine devastates the region
1773 CE: Regulating Act reshapes Company rule
1784 CE: Pitt’s India Act strengthens state oversight
1793 CE: Permanent Settlement in Bengal
1799 CE: Tipu Sultan falls at Srirangapatna
1802 CE: Treaty of Bassein divides Maratha politics

Historical Events & Sourced Records (1785 CE)

Mysore and Maratha wars decide the Company’s military position

Four Anglo-Mysore wars and three Anglo-Maratha wars broke the strongest organised checks on Company expansion in southern and western India. Victory depended on Indian sepoys, allies, credit and diplomacy as well as European military techniques.

Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan and successive Maratha leaders pursued their own alliances and modernisation projects. The Company’s eventual dominance was cumulative, expensive and repeatedly uncertain.

Source: Britannica: East India Company

1785 ईस्वी में भारत का नक्शा: कंपनी राज

1785 ईस्वी का यह इंटरैक्टिव नक्शा कंपनी राज के समय का भारत दिखाता है। एक व्यापारिक कंपनी राजस्व, सेना और संधियों से औपनिवेशिक सत्ता बन जाती है।

1785 ईस्वी में भारत पर किसका शासन था? मुग़ल साम्राज्य, मराठा स्वराज्य और साम्राज्य, ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी का शासन, हैदराबाद रियासत (निज़ाम), मैसूर राज्य, मेवाड़, अहोम राज्य, पुर्तगाली भारत, त्रावणकोर, अवध।

1785 mein Bharat ke pramukh rajya: Mughal Empire, Maratha Swarajya and Empire, East India Company rule. Ye Company Raj ka daur tha.