Does the sentence "During the middle decades of the 18th century, there were several outbreaks of military conflict on the Indian subcontinent, the Carnatic Wars, as the English East India Company (the Company) and its French counterpart, the Compagnie francaise des Indes orientales, struggled alongside local rulers to fill the vacuum that had been left by the decline of the Mughal Empire." answer the question "Where were the Carnatic Wars?"

Options:
[a]. yes
[b]. no
[b].