India got a lot out of Imperialism, good and bad. The British found a lot of useful…
Imagine living in India when the British took full control, and then being forced to change your day to day life. The british had an economic interest in India which started during the 1600’s. During the Industrial Revolution, India was considered a prized possession by the British because they supplied raw materials to the factories for production. Eventually, the British took full control of India, and made some major changes that significantly impacted India. Although the British had a negative economic impact on India, they had a positive impact on both the political and social aspects of India. The British were able to set a foundation for India, and create a justice system while containing violence, even though they had to take away some Indian rights to do so.…
British imperialism improved the lives of the colonized Indians to no extent due to the unreasonable economic policies that lead to famine, the extreme poverty caused by the heavy taxation of Indians, and the unjust and one-sided British government that gave the colonized no say. The lives of the Indians were not improved from the British imperialism because of the implementation of cash crops and mercantilism that lead to starvation. Cash crops are crops produced for their commercial value rather than for the use of the grower. The British forced Indians to only grow cash crops to strengthen the British economy.…
Once the British took over they paid them very poor and they had poor living conditions, compared to the British. The Indians were forced to be low ranked. As previously stated the Sepoys were forced to be gone overseas, which they really didn’t like. They forced the Hindus who were in a higher caste fight in remedial jobs and forced them to fight over seas , this really made them angry because in their religion it forced them to go down in the caste system. The British then did things that really offended the Muslim and Hindi people by using pig and cow fat for greasing the rifles. The Muslims and Hindu people thought of those things as sacred. Over all the British treated the Indians like…
British Imperialism affected India in a negative way. Formerly, Indians had pretty good life conditions. Before the British began to push their way into India, religious beliefs were intact and practiced regularly. Life was based upon the strict caste system and marriages were huge deals and came with big celebrations. Indians lived a relatively normal life with little violence.…
British imperialism had a negative impact on the politics of India because the justice system was biased toward Indians and that the government had more white…
The British imperialism of India was beneficial to the Indian people because it helped fix many wrong things in the government. In the Hindu culture, there are many traditions that take place and that are harmful to the Hindu people. One of the terrible traditions is infanticide, which is the killing of an infant. Another benefit for the Hindu culture is that there was equality between men for justice purposes. The imperialism by British was beneficial because it caused, “[a]bolition of suttee and infanticide… Allowing remarriage of Hindu widows, and charitable aid in time of famine… Freedom from oppression caused by the caprice or greed of despotic rulers, and from devastation by war. Equal justice between man and man” ( Naoroji 131-36). The British abolished the killing of infants and suttee, the suicide of a widow at the funeral of the husband, which saved the lives of many infants as well as many grieving widows. There was also saving from the oppression from other rulers, thus leading the Hindu to keep their religion. The benefits of British imperialization outweighed the costs because it saved the lives of many Hindu widows and Hindu…
Whether you agree with the Imperialism in India or not you can't ignore the fact that the British went to India with a demand for more raw materials to fuel the industrial revolution. Once they saw the potential in India they decided they wanted to get involved, Splitting it up into many sections so that there would be no conflict, however the people of India had no say in this and the more advanced development of the British left them ultimately defenseless against the British. I believe the British did more harm than anything getting involved with India Politically, economically, and socially.…
British Imperialism was a large factor in the development of India both technologically and socially. The main reason that the British Imperialism has had such a large effect on the Indian way of life was because it lasted 190 years. Such a long direct and indirect rule impacted India's development immensely, with the occupation ranging from the oppressive company rule to the British monarchy. The imperialism of India had many negative effects on the nation. Indian culture was lost, people were repressed, and the social order was completely destroyed. However; there were also many good outcomes. This boost in resources allowed Britain colonies to contribute to fixing India as a whole and make their economy stronger. This also, eventually freed…
The British introduced education, language, religion, democracy and trade to India. It is evident that the direct British changes created positive growth for the country with regards to education and technological advances but it created socioeconomic changes to the culture according to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).…
India has a history of being a fractured nation, at times this disunity was even able to save them from being taken over by conquerors like Alexander the Great. However, their luck was doomed to run out. India has always been a country rich in resources, making it natural prey to the British imperialists who not only wished to exploit these resources but the people of India as well. With a viewpoint such as this, it’s simple to see why Indian's view of British Imperialists evolved into yet another divided nation, with some coming to accept and see the benefits of Britain's political control, while others couldn’t come to terms with how easily the British system disregarded them and how altered it was from the once great Mughal Empire. Despite…
3. By the 1830s, the British government had taken over control of the East India Company. Under British rule, native customs such as sati, the ritual suicide of a wife after her husband’s death, were banned. The British built schools and railroads, and missionaries spread Christianity.…
Advantages brought to India during rule from the British, were brought by the East India Company, which were run my Indian princes that were protected by the British. The East India Company established many things for India including telegraph, railroad, and irrigation systems. It also set up a large army called the sepoys to defend its interests and India's borders. The Sepoys were commanded by the British officers and were supported by the units of the British army. Although the Indians benefited from the British rule many resented British rule. The East India Company made sure that British colonist received most of the advantages from the new technology and industrialization. Indian factory workers and servants received very low wages. Farmers got very little for there harvest. Indians could not hold high level positions. Schools also taught English and Western ideas and paid little attention to the long history and advanced culture of…
When the East India Company established their business in Indian subcontinent they were not aware about the laws of that area. As a result they faced problems in the administration levels. The main concern of the administrators of East India Company, Hastings and also his immediate successors, was to ensure maximum amount of land revenue along with the introduction of a judicial administration of both civil and criminal, which would command the authority over the native subjects.[1] So in 1772 Governor-General, Warren Hastings declared his Plan for the Administration of Justice that ‘in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages or institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to the Mohamedans and those of the Shaster with respect to the Gentoos shall invariably be adhered to.’[2] This policy developed some more policies that modernize Hindu law and established Anglo-Hindu law. The codification of Hindu law helped this personal to develop because before this codification Hindu law was not codified any where, so it became easier to bring reforms in a compiled law. Moreover, due to the policy of using Hindu law in civil cases concerning Hindu parties, Court Pundits were introduced in courts to help English judges in decision-making. Finally, besides taking help from pundits in giving judgment on Hindu law related cases, the English judges also took help the principles of common law. As a result the Hindu law developed, which contributed to the reforms of Hindu law that took place in the end of British India.…
The First Law Commission was established in 1834 by the British Government under the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay. It suggested various enactments to the British Government, most of which were passed and enacted and are still in force in India. Few of the most importance recommendations made by this First Law Commission were those on, Indian Penal Code (first submitted in 1837 but enacted in 1860 and still in force),Criminal Procedure Code (enacted in 1898, repealed and succeeded by theCriminal Procedure Code of 1973), etc. Thereafter three more Law Commissions were established which made a number of other recommendations the Indian Evidence Act (1872) and Indian Contract Act (1872), etc. being some of the significant ones. The contribution of these Law Commissions can be enumerated as under…