In the years roughly between 1600 and 1950, the British used the foreign land of India to their advantage. These were the years of British Empire and expansion. The use imperialistic powers to benefit economically, politically, and geographically began with the British East India Company in the early 1600s where the land was used for spice trade and provided as a trading post for both British, Dutch and other settling imperialists at the next 100 years.. As time went on, the land was beginning to have more and more British influence and would eventually gain a powerful military presence. In the late 1700s, millions of Indians were under British rule and were forced to work on plantations were they would be treated more like slaves than workers.
