17th century saw a new organized and consistent movement of Europeans into the shores of India. Dutch, British, French and Portuguese companies increasingly started exerting pressures in all attempt to gain maximum control over trading privileges in India. It all started as an economic tussle to reap rich harvest in the field of trade and commerce between these European companies which gradually turned into war for the supremacy and rule of the occupier nation, in which the British East India Company came out clear winner in the mid-18th century. The British East India Company, as it is known, with the blessings of the British monarch, became the imperial overlords of India, began assuming economic, political and territorial control. As a result, irreversible changes in the socio- political landscape of India took place, transforming the country into the colony of the new colonizers.