On December 31, 1600, the government of Great Britain established the East India Company and all the businessmen, sailors and agents who were working in Asia and its waters became its members.
This company gradually started meddling in all of India’s affairs and spread out colonialism throughout India to such an extent that by January 1877, Britain’s Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli dissolved the East India Company and announced India as part of Great Britain’s emperorship; Queen Victoria called herself the Empress of England and India on the same day.
Through the Indian people’s struggle, led by Mahatma Gandhi, India regained its independence in 1947.