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British Colonialism: The Effect Of British Imperialism On India

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Today I will be talking about how British imperialism effected India in different ways. India became really valuable to the British when the railroad was build there. The British used the railroad to transport goods and raw product. Nearly all the materials used in manufacturing were produced on plantations, including tea, cotton, opium and coffee. In particular, the British would ship opium to China in exchange for tea that was sold in England. The British goods map shows were the British picked up, transported and dropped off what they wanted. For example to the Caribbean to Europe they would transport raw material such as sugar, cotton, tobacco. And from Europe to Africa they would travel and drop off manufactured

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