East India Company

who believed they were stronger and better. India was one of the many countries imperialized in the late 1800’s. Britain was the one that colonized it around 1850 but their East India Company was gaining control before then. They were given famine, death, and disagreements for a period in time. Britain’s legacy was kept in the culture, army, and government to say a few. India was given the chance to grow from Britain’s imperialism and they took it. India was under the control of many different…

used the industrial revolution to their advantage to gain more territories through imperialism, starting with India. Britain’s presence in India led to great profits for themselves, but loss of independence and loss of culture for the natives. When the British East India Company obtained power over India, regulations and leaders were set in place to incorporate Britain into everything India did. Essentially, Indians labored and harvested raw materials for the British, and then had to buy British…

The 18th century marked the demolition of the Mughal sphere of influence and the rise of the British East India Company. By expanding its trade enterprise into the Indian subcontinent, The Company, hoped to both fund the administrative costs of its day-to-day operations and generate sizeable profits (John 21). After some initial difficulty, the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, allowed the Company to trade in 1612. Two decades after this agreement, the first trading port was established in Bengal. As…

have prospered, some had no effect, and many of people died from imperialism. In India, there was no doubt that the British imperialism had some a big impact on India. Before the British imperialism, India was the home of many independent kingdoms, until a company called the “British East India Company” chartered by Queen Elizabeth centered India. The company fought against India in the Battle of Plessey where India lost its independence. Eventually the Indians wanted independence and the Sepoy…

The tax placed on tea by the British was a way to help the East India tea company, and it was politically significant. The Americans, at the time, had just had the Townshend acts repealed on common items such as glass, paper, and etc. however they were not satisfied until all taxes had been removed. This tax was barely anything for an average American. The Englishman who had maybe half an acre of land was not generating much revenue yet he or she willingly paid taxes of 50% of their profit. The…

Back then the world’s largest corporation was based back in London The East Indian C was unlike any merchant company of old. It had its own civil service and army and ruled over Ruled over a 5th of world population. Its network of trade routes stretched across half the world In its hay day, the company generated more revenue than Briton itself and its most valuable cargo – was tea Since the days of Marco Polo, Chinese tea had become immensely…

opportunities granted by the unification as well. Now Scots could now join the East India Trading Company as employees and investors and were not barred by the Navigation acts and merchants could now go to the colonies directly for trade. Many Scots quickly joined the Trading Company and rose through the ranks joining many Englishmen into riches earning the title of “Nabob’. The most notable early Scot in the East India Company being James Macrae, born in Ayrshire, he became the governor of…

grateful for what you have and who you are”. Later on, we asked her if there was one person is history you would want to meet who would it be? Without any hesitation or thought, she immediately said Mahatma Gandhi. She felt that not only did he liberate India, but also he shed light on an era of peace. I remember her specifically saying, “Gandhi taught us how to love with an open heart”. My story that I encountered with the Indian lady opened my eyes to the reality of life. Ignorant…

1914, the British ruled over Indian society. Although they brought India political and economic development, imperialism was more beneficial to Britain themselves but less for Indian society overall. The period of the Raj started because from the years 1857 to 1858 a rebellion against the British took place called the Indian Revolt. It began with a rebellion by Indian troops serving in the army of the British East India Company. Once some of the Indian troops began to revolt, the rebellion…

believed, “India was not a colony, and whites were discouraged by the Company from settling there. Those soldiers who did see out their time were promptly shipped back to Britain…” (Colley, 336). This was a stark difference to how the British Empire dealt with American colonies, where British soldiers were stationed and formed relationships with the Native Americans or whomever else could be manipulated into fighting alongside them. In an attempt to further discourage settling within India,…