British rule over India changed the course of history in India. The British came to India at the start of the seventeenth century. This was the time when the British East India Company was established in India to break the Dutch monopoly over spice trade. With time the East India Company increased its powers and started to administer the country. However its policies were disliked by Indians and together they revolted against the company. This led to the downfall of the company and the administration
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in government is India. The movement in India was led by Mohandas Gandhi. The desire for a change in government could potentially have negative and positive impacts. Mohandas Gandhi was the leader of civil disobedience in India. Before the independence movement in India began‚ India was a British Colony since the 1760s. Prior to British imperialism and colonialism in India‚ many Indians hand craft their tools and clothes for survival. Since the British took over most of India due to the British’s
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War of Independence was a turning point in the history of Britain in India. However‚ whether this lead to the formation of the British Raj‚ will be explicitly explored in this essay. The East India Company traded in cotton‚ silk‚ tea and opium. They won over Bengal after gaining victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757‚ under Robert Clive. The East India Company functioned as the military authority in growing sections of India‚ as well. By 1770‚ heavy taxation and other policies had left millions
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high ranked official in the British system of government. The East India company passed many policies that pushed former elites and princes down the social hierarchy. One such policy passed by Lord Dalhousie‚ was the Doctrine of Lapse . This Doctrine was passed in 1848 and stated that the East India Company will control the territories of kings who don’t have a natural heir to their throne (“Doctrine of Lapse….”). The East India Company also gained export rights such as‚ gold‚ silver‚ jewelry‚ spices
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rulers trying to get out of the policies they were tied with the East India Company; the Indian community outraged with the English intervention in their religion as well as the Indian soldiers who were offended by The use of animal fat in the New Enfield Rifle. Facts and books are mostly used to evaluate the causes and effects of the Sepoy Mutiny. Two of the sources used in this essay‚ The history of India by John McLeod and India A history by John Keay are than evaluated for their origins‚ purposes
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political relationship between The United Kingdom and British Controlled India that would create the long lasting tension between the groups and would eventually lead to India’s independence. The British East India Company‚ originally known as The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies‚ was unique in the fact that it was the only corporation to ever rule a nation. (Landow‚ “The British East India Company”). The corporation received its start on December 31st 1600 when a
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killing Nathoo and two of Brydon’s men. Mowgli is lost in the confusion and assumed dead. Bagheera the panther brings Mowgli to a wolf pack who adopts him and Mowgli then befriends a bear club named Baloo. Years later Kitty and her father return to India and at first she doesn’t recognize Mowgli‚ but then Kitty recognizes the bracelet she gave them when they were children. Boone‚ Kitty’s husband-to-be‚ throws Mowgli in prison and Kitty and Brydon decide they must teach Mowgli the ways of man. Kitty
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Assess the causes of the Indian Rebellion in 1857 Society in India was heavily contrived by the British (i.e. the East India Trade Company) and through the rebellion; society became socially‚ politically and economically impoverished. Although there are many leading causes In the May of 1857‚ the sepoys of the East India Trade Company’s army began a mutiny against the East Indian Trade Company. Initially starting of as a small revolt in the small northwest town of Meerut‚ the mutiny eventually
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them by getting the Chinese addicted. This eventually leads to the Opium War. B- India 1. During the 1700s‚ a joint-stock company called the British East India Company was chartered by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The company’s main objective was to make a profit for shareholders by exploiting the abundant natural resources and gaining access to the markets in India. 2. To do this‚ the British East India Company successfully used “divide and conquer” tactics to increase their control over entire
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continuing importance to India’s national sense of identity. It began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company’s army‚ against perceived race based injustices and inequities‚ on 10 May 1857‚ in the town of Meerut‚ and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions which were mainly centered on north central India along the several major river valleys draining the south face of the Himalayas [See red annotated locations on Map at right] but with
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