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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,…

nations have been subjected to imperialism. In particular, India and Africa have both seen their fair share of being ruled by another nation. Both these two regions had differing imperial experiences, much to do the aims of the imperialize to the independence movements indorsed by the native people. But, the imperial experience in India was much less destructive and more effective than the one in Africa. The process of the subjugation in both India and Africa can be considered evil. Looking at…

Introduction: This essay will cover the impact that the rule of the British Empire had on the development of India’s development as a nation. Ruling of the British lasted nearly 90 years from 1858 to 1947, when the English East India Company had established supremacy in Bengal in 1857. The transition from a relationship of trade to direct rule can be explained by the needs of trade. The British began to criticize the prices of textiles, which was the most important item in this trade, and…

Moving on to the Mughal Empire, which was located in modern-day India from about 1526 to 1857. The Mughals had, as expected, a very strong military; and like the other Gunpowder Empires, they used gunpowder as a way to further this. However, they used it in a way that the other empires did not: rockets. Although these were essentially just arrows that packed a little bit more of a punch, they were undoubtedly an upgrade from standard arrows. As well as this, the Mughals produced very…

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 popular in…

Newspapers kept up their interest in the welfare of Indians in British colonies. The Abhyudaya asked Indians living abroad to return to India, it opined that, “This will raise their status in the eyes of foreigners and will also enable the people of India to develop the vast resources of the country.” The nationalist movement was concerned both with entering colonial institutions, gradually occupying the state in order to change it from within, and with autonomous activism, mobilizing an…

believed that Fijians should continue to live in their own traditional surroundings, protected from the outside world and controlled and managed by their own tribal chiefs. It was Sir Gordon that invited the Australian owned Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) to establish the sugar industry in Fiji. The CSR started its operations in Fiji in 1882 and departed in 1973. The decision of Sir Gordon to use Indians to work in the sugar cane plantations in Fiji was based on the success that was…

Amitav Ghosh throws light on the imperialist modes of social, cultural and ecological dominance in his fourth novel The Glass Palace. The novel points out that how colonialization has brutally exploded in the South Asia and results into the environmental degradation. The novel is interlocked in the various historical events like colonization of Burma by the British, the First World War, and conquest of Japan over Russia, the intense changes wrought by World War II etc. It’s a story that…

text The dis¬courses or narratives written then and later address the issues of the 'new' nation-mapping of territorial spaces, the re¬grouping of communities, peoples, cultures, languages into a homogenous identity of being Indian and belonging to India. Within this text of national identity runs the sub-text of centrality and marginality. The schemes of the nation include or exclude people, communities from its centre space. In this article I will attempt to look at the issues of marginality…

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…