Company rule in India

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    This article focuses on the 19th century India in the social, historical, religious, political and cultural contexts.The pre-renaissance period can be marked as the background to welcome the Renaissance in India with a special reference to the advent of the British in India as an external influence on the internal, as the influence of the West on the East.India as an identity rests not only on the history of discrete people but also on cultures given its socio-political, socio-religious and…

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    audiences through the analysis of imperial rule. There are a series of arguments concerning the liberal critics of the British Empire. At a practical level, ‘liberal’ thought often refers to colonisation, trade and conquest in the form of multi-faceted transcultural and coexisting…

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    The Industrial Revolution and India Script Aya and Jad AYA The Industrial Revolution Summary The Industrial Revolution was a significant time in world history. It was marked as the change of time, labelled as a new era, and identified as the largest transformation to grace the planet. It began around the 18th century due to the fact that the British needed to make money. Great Britain was the nation to outset this because they had more advanced resources and technology than any other country…

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    imperialism began all the way up from the 1600s. India was viewed as wealthy, it was home to 300 million people and all the resources you could dream of. By 1707 India’s empire was collapsing and looked weak. The weakness enticed the British, the East India company that was a British company, took over India. The British government took complete political control after the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. British imperialism had a negative impact on India because of the army training techniques that…

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    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…

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    examples is the British takeover of India. Indian civilization dates back more than five-thousand years (Culture Grams Online Addition Web) and has a history of oligarchies, split kingdoms, and rebellions. This fragmented state was how British traders found India upon their arrival in 1601. However, the English merchants dreamed not of domination, but trade. Fortunes were made in this new land, but the idea of trade turned into something…

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    present today. The current political climates of North America, Africa, and South Asia are all affected by this colonialism due to the political infrastructure and in some cases, the lack thereof that was put into place during the time of European rule. It is a monumental task to completely analyze the colonial experiences of European powers, particularly Britain in South Asia, but some conclusions can certainly be drawn. With the United States being a notable exception, it can be said that…

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    government preferred to help the struggling East India Company than to see colonial smugglers profiting and using their newly gained financial power to sponsor Anti-British protests. Another reason was that this Act essentially gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea, which offended colonial merchants. During the time that the Tea Act was passed, many of the colonists were not loyalists, and chose not to buy from the East India Company. Information from Encyclopedia Britannica…

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    WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1857 In 1857 British faced a serious challenge to their rule in India known as "The Indian Rebellion of 1857" or "The war of independence 1857" was a war in India against the rule of the Britain and their company named as east India company and their domination in subcontinent. It was basically a effort to get rid of their domination that continued from May 1857 to July 1859 and The rebellion is also known by many other names including the India's First War of…

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    Why in almost all of India is English the native language spoken by over 125 million Indians? The British imperialized India after years of the East India company trading with the Indians for cheaply made fabric until the government decide India was useful to the British and stepped in taking India as a colony. British imperialized India, by indirectly controlling India until the Indians could help the British benefit of the Indians politically, economically, and socially. The British realized…

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