Importance Of British Colonization Of India

British colonization was more tactical than that of other colonial rule. The key agenda of the British was to get maximum economic benefits from this region. In the beginning of 17th century, East India Company was granted permission by the Mughal ruler Jahangir to commence its business activities in India. This organization was supposed to do business and earn profits by trade via sea but soon they tried to become a monopoly and as they were fully armed therefore managed to draw its means from land revenues as well. The British officers were employed in major business hubs of India and were given excellent and attractive employment opportunities with handful of bonuses from the company’s profit, land revenues and taxes.
The expansion of authority over India was the core objective of British in diverse extents because of the geographical location, logistics and human resource. In the first century of East India Company rule, company had captured the trade market and the merchants who wanted to export their finished goods were required to deal with and undergo the channel of East India Company. British were not against the …show more content…
In the beginning of 1857, one of the British civil officers was shot by the Bengali soldiers. That unrest and disturbance was stimulated by so many Indians especially from Benares in the east to Delhi in the west, because of that British reduced their manifestation in that region for few months but still couldn’t escape the circumstances and therefore that mutiny caused great rebellion of 1857. The mutineers than marched to Delhi, where the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar had been assigned the ceremonial leading role of that rebellion. The locals of Delhi including the stubborn policemen and working class supported the mutineers and got engaged in the so-called war of