Throughout history, many countries were colonized by stronger forces. India is no different; it was colonized by the British during the mid 18th century until the 20th centuries, which is the combination of the eras, also known as the “British rule in Burma”and “British Raj.” Often, it is arguable whether colonization had an influence in forming a societal or cultural aspects of the country that is being occupied. Specifically, if the British colonization of India shaped and had an impact on the culture, education and government rule in India. The first area where the British influenced India’s lifestyle is religion.
The British rule had a huge impact on religion in India since the English missionaries established churches in every corner of India. Since the port cities, such as Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai were accessible with the British navigation, they were the most influential (Influenced??) and susceptible to Christianity (IndiaNetZone). Although only a few parts of the Indian population converted their religion to Christianity, it was successful for the British. No matter what the purpose of converting non-Christian Indians to Christianity is, what is important is the fact that there are Indian Christians today. This shows the fact that the British colonization of India had an impact on
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The Indian National Congress was established by well-educated native Indians for political rights of the Indians due to the British government that strictly controlled India(Yue). Not only the advent of the political Congress Party, but also Muslim league, which both called for self-government appeared. In addition, many people who fought for the independence of India arose, such as Gandhi and Nehru. Without the British interception of Indian sovereignty, neither the Congress Party nor any Indians for India’s freedom would have
They are looking to gain as much wealth and power as possible for themselves on behalf of the British. As a result of the exclusion of natives from the “Legislative Council of India,” they felt that all laws “were passed with a view to degrade and ruin them.” (Document 3) The BEIC were outsiders who were now making all of their decisions for them. The people of India had no voice in the government under the
Granted Dr. Lalvani would say the british created an unblemished government that worked in everyone’s favor it was oppressive towards Indian people due to the fact that they were not involved in the making of laws that directly affected them. In paragraph
The French and Indian war took place from 1754 and ended in 1763, the same time as the Treaty of Paris was established. This war was also known as the Seven Years’ war. This war bought many conflicts from different aspects that had an affect on Great Britain and different colonies. The war changed the relationship, politically, between Great Britain and different colonies drastically.
The french and Indian war clearly did result in significant economic, cultural and political developments in the colonies between 1763 and 1775. Yes the french and indian war affected the bond between the british and american colonies meanwhile fighting for control in north america. They gave the authority to have more options in supply and demand in economical and political province by impactful by order of the law and raising taxes unfairly on the american colonies, which affected the colonists to change their ideas from acceptance to resentment toward the british. Their wealth and representation of changing their beliefs and culture affect.
The British rulers of India helped settle 500 million diverse peoples with different religions all over India during their rulership, providing stronger communities held together by values of religion (Paragraph 6). However, the people of India were given little to no responsibility of themselves and their own nation (Document 1). Meaning the British also created a great divide of the native people and the British imperialists get to dictate what taxes and laws exist, all of which to only better the lives of themselves and did not pertain to the basic human needs for the people who actually lived in India. Paragraph 12 shows that the British did bring several different states of India into one unified nation to help establish an effective justice system, civil service, loyal army, and efficient police force to protect the people of India. On the other hand, document 2 shows that the Indians had no say in the taxes they had to pay to the British or how they spent their money as a nation.
The “important role” played by the Congress Party after India’s separation from Great Britain has been the most important in the relative success of the country along with the concept of nationality that comes as a result. Even though India had already had already had a say in their government prior to independence making Congress already sixty years old at the point where they no longer became a colony of Great Britain. This made the transition from colonization easier for India than other countries, and Congress is what smoothed this new change for the country. In India they have a caste system, meaning that at birth people within the country are placed in a social class where it is hard to go up and down the class-ladder. The higher castes
Chase Wessinger Dr. Morris History 111 18 September 2016 There have been many historical impacts in the British North American colonies. Between the time frame of 1607 and 1775 I believe the biggest changes were ethnic diversity and population growth amongst the colonies. Through the time span of 1700 to 1775 the colonies’ population grew by ten times. It escalated from 250,000 to 2,500,000.
Furthermore, without political rights, citizens cannot participate in the government nor their society. So, people under British authority felt that they could not contribute to society. In the document: “The Pros and Cons of British Rule”, Dadabhai Naoroji vividly explains why the citizens of India were not treated fairly and were not given certain rights. “Political aspirations and the legitimate claim to have a reasonable voice in the legislation and the imposition and disbursement of taxes, met to a very slight degree, thus treating the natives of India not as British subjects, in whom representation is a birthright” (Naoroji). This quote describes how the indigenous people in India were
They believed this justified the persecution of all other cultures. Nationalism also made the British culture feel superior to the Indian culture. The British tried to change the people living in their colony to believe and act the way they did. The British tried to change the Indian culture. They sent missionaries to India to try to convert the them to Christianity, which they felt was better than the Indian religions.
Muslims still felt less important than the Hindus fearing Muslim interests wouldn’t be protected by the mainly Hindu congress. In conclusion for Dr. Lalvani to say that the British over all helped and positively impacted India completely disregards the fact that Indians had to go through so much loss and pain through struggles and challenges that India has to go through
Since the beginning of religion, missionaries have attempted to spread religion and their beliefs on others. This is only one of minor reasons of the social aspect of Imperialism. An extremely important part of Imperialism, was to increase the size “of the finest race in the world,” (Doc 4). Cecil Rhodes describes how the more territory the British have, “more of the best, the most human, most honourable race the world possesses,” (Doc. 4).
Building an Empire becomes problematic when the colonizers know nothing about the territory being colonized. Britain began colonizing India in the 1700s, completely ignorant about the people of India and their cultural and religious beliefs. Ignorance comes from a lack of knowledge. This lack of knowledge can be by choice, like in this situation. Despite their ignorance, Englishmen still came into India with an arrogant attitude.
They were able to expand the empire as well as unite the many different peoples and religions within the area. Soon Great Britain decided to take over thinking it was the best thing for them and the people, although the Indians thought differently. When the British came to India their main goal was to expand their empire. They thought that they would do it in a way that was fair for everyone. Although, they were going to take over India,
The British first came to India not only because of the abundance of raw materials, but also the mass potential they seen. The British East India Company, took advantage of the collapsing Mughal Empire, and broke away from their control to flourished their company. In 1857 the Sepoy army rebelled and that caused the British to come in guns blazing and take over the country. The British rule demolished India through, taxation on anything made in India, and the exportation of raw materials, which caused a plentiful amount of famine,and throughout all of this, the British kept most on India uneducated, and those they did educate, most were forced to become interpreters for the benefits it would make in taking over India and keeping the British in control. Political Paragraph British imperialism had a negative effect on the politics of India because of the corrupt justice system, and the utter lack of respect that killed masses of innocent people.
After we have seen what might be the causes in the colonises, I would like to take a closer look to some countries by themselves. Some countries, like England and France were once colonisers and they brought their own culture of governing to the colonises. Therefore it could be interesting to examine their history after a bigger breaking-point. In case of England, this will be the Industrial Revolution and then the Glorious Revolution that has started such procedures that it lead to a complete change in their economic system.