British people

strongest thread for Salman Rushdie’s allegorical exploration of the events that occurred in India, just following their declaration of independence. Midnight’s Children, is therefore significant as a historical portrayal of India, and the impact of British colonialism on the…

politician, philanthropist and cricketing legend Imran Khan. The British approached India at the commencement of the seventeenth century. With time, The British East India Company accumulated power and began to administrate the country. Nonetheless Indians detested its policies and together they revolted against the company. This led to the downfall of the company and the administration of India went directly under the Queen. The British annexed many princely states and formed laws and policies…

strongest tribe of indigenous people. Originally the group included, Mowhawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and the Seneca Indians. When the Europeans came over, they learned many things from the tribes. This gives away to the reason that the Iroquois fought mostly with the British. The Iriquois Induans were used to teach how to grow crops, hunt, how to live on the land, and also how to fight. The knowledge almost seemed stolen from these tribes. Once the Revolution started the British wanted the…

were fighting to establish their independent nature and state against the British. The British had previously not recognized the Americans independence, which set Americans on a quest to establish that they were an independent nation that had its own laws and one that could not be influenced or ruled by other nations. This second war of independence helped them establish their independence and sovereignty against the British as well as against any other nation that may have doubted their…

So, how exactly did the British lose the American Revolution? After all, the British army with soldiers who had fought in five different continents, who had controlled the civilians in Jamaica and Indians, was the best equipped, the best trained and had the most professional people at that time. Why not the 13 colonies of North America? At a glance the primary reasons why the British lost America is that first America had home field advantage. Second, the British had a long distance from their…

compiled with the other conflicts that they had with the British around the world and the Native Americans’ fear that they were going to lose what land they had left; this territorial dispute prompted the French and Indian War. Though a treaty ended the war, it was clear that the British had won, consequently altering the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American Colonies. This was clearly evident in the British Parliament’s influence, constant taxation, and…

As a British subject, the colonists were entitled to proper representation within the British Parliament. Under British rule, the colonists did not have a say in political decisions directly or indirectly; colonists were not represented. The British understanding was contrary to this, Thomas Whately later explaining that the colonists were given virtual representation. Virtual representation was characterized by Parliament being made up of every type of British property owner from the…

British imperialism in India was a time period lasting around 2 centuries from 1757 to 1947 when they finally left the country. British imperialism was split into two periods, the rule from the British East India Company from 1757 to 1858 and the rule under British Crown, 1858 to 1947. The rule and extension of influence through India started from the British East India Company establishing trade routes/posts throughout India. They were able to control parts of India partly due to the use of…

of the French and Indian War. By 1763, all of the French land was taken by the Spanish and English. Native American could not get the amount of food and supplies they needed from their land which had decreased in size(Doc B). The expansion of white people into Native American territory caused this demand for necessities. Expansion was caused by population increase and the need to expand west and grow crops.…

Even though the British provided the Indians with advanced technology and education, Imperialism within India was mostly negative because of famine, the Sepoy Mutiny, and their bad regimen or bad treatment towards them. First and Foremost in India there was famine due to imperialism. The more cotton that was being grown, the more famine deaths there were. For example, in document 3 according to the chart it shows that between 1876-1879 there were between 6.1 million- 10 million famine deaths.…