East India Company

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…

Salt: A Simple and Powerful Legacy Muhandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. At the time the country had been under the official government rule of Britain for eleven years, and had been under heavy influence from the British East India Company since 1757. As Gandhi grew up he would realize the problems of the British power. He would use his knowledge and new ideas to unite the country. Through nonviolent protests and civil disobedience Gandhi would later make England realize…

state of Malacca which seized by the Portuguese in 1511 but they later driven out by the Dutch will the help of Sultan Johor at that time. The peninsula then was rule by Johor. In 1786, the Sultan of Kedah granted Penang Island to the British East India Company to be…

China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with companies like the British East India Company. My father, Liang Xu worked on a trading post outside the walls of Guangzhou. These posts were referred to as “barbarian houses” by the Guangzhou residents because people all over the world would come to trade at…

discuss the different aspects of the East India Company that helped influence British imperialism. Before going into the presentation let’s start with what the East India Company is. The East India Trading Company was founded specifically to get in on the industry based on the spice trade in East India. Given its monopolistic practices and size, it had a lot of political influence in England. The company even employed a private army, to control trade into and out of India. In the nineteenth…

Informal reception of Johor The British managed to conquer Johor for having a very good strategy. British advisors were appointed is a way for British to conquer Johor when the title of advisors play an important role as well as Resident in the Federated Malay States (FMS). The general advisor at the time was named Douglas Graham Campbell. He was able to advise and control Sultan Ibrahim in all matters except religion and custom. In the previous, British used his general adviser to influence…

terms of British Colonial rule in India. These distinctions emerged alongside the British ‘civilizing mission’ in which the question of rights came to the forefront of the discourse and were matched with the invention of culture. Edmond Burke’s analysis of rights in the context of the French revolution reveals that natural rights are inherited and passed down from generation to generation, as they are forms of tradition. In contrast the colonial project in India rejected Burke’s organic view of…

Year 9 sources analysis Victorian England and British India //Sup-topic: the Indians mutiny 1857 Answer the following question using the sources “turning point –Morden history depth studies” provided by the teacher. Comprehension: 1) What are a few aspects of the massacre at Cawnpore that we can find in source 3.10 on p.71? The aspects that I have been concluded in source 3.10 is that the massacre was described as a “blacker scheme” implying that author of this text referred to it as a…

The Sepoy Mutiny is about Indians that back in the 1850’s when they worked for Great Britain that heard rumors that the soldiers used cow and pig grease in their weapons which is against their religion and they rebelled. I don’t think that the soldiers use animal grease as cartridges in their rifles. The Sepoy Mutiny was caused by a rumor and a rumor only. That rumor seems to be that cow and pig grease were used as cartridges in british rifles and that is against the Indians religions. Evidence…

Andrew Roberts summarizes the British imperialism in India as a positive impact since it led to the technological development of the sub-continent. The European prejudices are deeply embedded in the quote stated by Andrew Roberts. He suggests that Britain was a benevolent colonial power since it led to the “modernization’’ and “development’’ of India. The author showcases strong support towards the British imperialist policies disapproving the Indian perspective. The exchange of goods and…