The East India Company, fresh from a colossal victory, and with the backing of its own private well-disciplined and experienced army, is able to assert its interests in the Carnatic region from its base at Madras and in Bengal from Calcutta, without facing any further obstacles from other colonial powers.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II, who with his allies has fought against the East India Company during his early years (1760–64), only accepts the protection of the British in the year 1803, after he has been blinded by his enemies and deserted by his subjects.

The company had continued to experience resistance from local rulers during its expansion.

Robert Clive had led company forces against Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar, and Midnapore district in Odisha to victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, resulting in the conquest of Bengal.

This victory had estranged the British and the Mughals, since Siraj Ud Daulah had been a Mughal feudatory ally.