Question: this asian country was once ruled by both the mughal and the british empires
Answer: 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 ( often known simply as `` the Company '' ) and its French counterpart , the French East India Company ( Compagnie française des Indes orientales ) , struggled alongside local rulers to fill the vacuum that had been left by the decline of the Mughal Empire .