East India Company

of sati, furthering the project of preservation. Scripture was thus used as a tool in the invention of tradition. The British approached various pundits and received interpretations of selected Sanskrit text . Orientalist scholarship concluded that India was a nation governed by scripture . These interpretations were used…

Passage to India is a novel written by E.M. Foster. It is located in the middle of the British Raj in India, when it was under the effective control of the British Empire for a long time, which developed a powerful economic control of the natural resources of the country, exploiting and exporting them to the most diverse places of the empire king George V and thereby creating a flourishing trade that benefited most the undisputed power in Britain grade. During this time, the population of India…

Although it might have seemed good to give a new rule over India it took away all their freedom, therefore when they took over all their land they also ran it carelessly. Without consideration of others they miss ruled and ran others into the ground while taking all their goods but leaving them to rote. “The English had 960 people controlling India but only 60 of those people were Indians” (doc 2) which might have been a good thing to the english because they then would have more power over the…

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…

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…

positive side and a negative side of Britain and India. Dr. Kartar Lalvani, author of The Making Of India, thought that it was equal between the two. But it wasn’t. The British colony took over the political, economic, and social control of India. The british rule created the world’s largest and strictest democracy. Although the british took control of the indians from 1858 to 1947 this came after the british east india started taking over part of india for the previous 100 years. The British…

India in the Victorian Era India got colonized by England in 1612. This caused new people to come in that would have never imagined to come in earlier. The British citizens moved because of its newly colonized land that caused many of them to sail over and start a new life. By colonizing India, it interfered with the native Indians, having another country come in. Created a rebellion known as the Indian rebellion of 1857 or as the Indian Mutiny, with the native Indians eventually wining…

defeated in India in 1857 because of the riots in central and northern India but in spring of 1858 they came back into the game. This was called the Revolt of 1857 and because the British came back a lot of violence occurred from both sides leading equal amounts of counter-violence. Since the British executed the rebels, the rebels also killed white civilians like women and children without mercy. This led to the Kanpur massacre in June 27, 1857. The revolt ended the rule of the East India…