Effects of Colonialism on Development
According to economic and development condition, it is widely known that the countries of this world has been divided into sections like- first world countries, second world countries and third world countries (unofficial now). In spite of many differences, many countries from the different sections have one thing in common- influenced by colonialism. According to Oxford dictionary Colonialism’s definition is, “The policy or practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically”. Colonialism is not a modern or latest phenomenon. Even when most of the countries of this world were not civilized, colonialism was being practiced by the then …show more content…
It is important to mention here that, also slave trade itself became a great business of the “golden” period of colonization. For instance, if we take sugar trade, they needed a lot of human resources. After a period they developed the technology and build machines and started the industrialization with the benefits they got from the previous business. Most of these Industries they made in their homeland. The strategy was to use the capital from the colonies, sometimes free of cost, and sometimes in a very cheap rate and then to manufacture products in their motherland. And After that to sell those products in relatively high rate to the colonies (Understanding Colonialism, 67). Indian subcontinent and Indigo is a good example in this case. British colonizer forcibly made the farmers in India to cultivate indigo in their lands and then they took the indigo from the farmers in very cheap rates. Then the British supplied the indigo to their homeland, the then Britain, and there they made Jeans (a kind of cloth) and then exported them back to India and sold them at a very high price. For the betterment of the textile business the transporting system had to be good enough and that is why the colonizers had built many rail lines, roads, steamships, telegraphic links and many other technologies (Understanding Colonialism, …show more content…
Again, sometimes the same expert says about the two sides of this coin- “colonization”. Among them, Bauer says that the effect is positive in case of American continent at the same time states the bad sides in case of African continent (not applicable for all countries) ( Understanding Colonialism, 72). However, through the colonization experience the ideas about trades and commerce and spread quickly and till date we are consuming the facilities, but it is also true that because of this system many richer countries became poorer (Indian Subcontinent, Africa). During that colonization period, somehow logics can be settled supporting colonization for that period, but at that point when colonization had used humans as slaves, tortured the inhabitants of the colonies and disgrace their culture- colonialism should not be supported. At present, another version of colonization, which is imperialism, has being practiced by the “super powers” like- U.S.A. of the world and which is gradually started creating bad impacts like- inflation. Living in this 21st century we cannot imagine being controlled by another power rather than our
According to economic and development condition, it is widely known that the countries of this world has been divided into sections like- first world countries, second world countries and third world countries (unofficial now). In spite of many differences, many countries from the different sections have one thing in common- influenced by colonialism. According to Oxford dictionary Colonialism’s definition is, “The policy or practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically”. Colonialism is not a modern or latest phenomenon. Even when most of the countries of this world were not civilized, colonialism was being practiced by the then …show more content…
It is important to mention here that, also slave trade itself became a great business of the “golden” period of colonization. For instance, if we take sugar trade, they needed a lot of human resources. After a period they developed the technology and build machines and started the industrialization with the benefits they got from the previous business. Most of these Industries they made in their homeland. The strategy was to use the capital from the colonies, sometimes free of cost, and sometimes in a very cheap rate and then to manufacture products in their motherland. And After that to sell those products in relatively high rate to the colonies (Understanding Colonialism, 67). Indian subcontinent and Indigo is a good example in this case. British colonizer forcibly made the farmers in India to cultivate indigo in their lands and then they took the indigo from the farmers in very cheap rates. Then the British supplied the indigo to their homeland, the then Britain, and there they made Jeans (a kind of cloth) and then exported them back to India and sold them at a very high price. For the betterment of the textile business the transporting system had to be good enough and that is why the colonizers had built many rail lines, roads, steamships, telegraphic links and many other technologies (Understanding Colonialism, …show more content…
Again, sometimes the same expert says about the two sides of this coin- “colonization”. Among them, Bauer says that the effect is positive in case of American continent at the same time states the bad sides in case of African continent (not applicable for all countries) ( Understanding Colonialism, 72). However, through the colonization experience the ideas about trades and commerce and spread quickly and till date we are consuming the facilities, but it is also true that because of this system many richer countries became poorer (Indian Subcontinent, Africa). During that colonization period, somehow logics can be settled supporting colonization for that period, but at that point when colonization had used humans as slaves, tortured the inhabitants of the colonies and disgrace their culture- colonialism should not be supported. At present, another version of colonization, which is imperialism, has being practiced by the “super powers” like- U.S.A. of the world and which is gradually started creating bad impacts like- inflation. Living in this 21st century we cannot imagine being controlled by another power rather than our