Lord Wellesley (1798-1805)


  • Introduced Subsidiary Alliance system.
  • Formation of Madras Presidency after annexation of the Kingdoms of Tanjore and Carnatic.
  • Forced Shah Alam II to become a pensioner.
  • Censorship of Press Act 1799.No newspaper was to be published at all until the manuscript of the whole paper were submitted to and approved by the Government.
  • Fourth Anglo- Mysore War 1799 and defeat of Tipu Sultan.Wellesley annexed the South Kanara coast,Wynaad in the south-east ,Coimbatore and Darupuram in the south-east besides Seringapatnam.
  • Treaty of Bassien with Bajirao II and second Anglo- Maratha war.The company’s territorial gains included the upper doab,all territories north of the Rajput states of Jaipur,Jodhpur and Gohud, the part of Baroach,the Fort of Ahmedabad and cuttack in Orissa.
  • Established the Fort William College in Calcutta in 1800.
  • Opened Administrative Training College.
  • In 1794 the Board of Trade was founded.
  • Christian missionaries established a printing press at Serampore.
  • By a revised subsidiary treaty forced on the Nizam and later ceded to the Company the districts of Bellary and Cuddapah.
  • In 1799 Wellesley took the administration of Tanjore,Surat and Carnatic.