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This article utilizes a three-pronged analytical model to examine the mechanics of British colonialism and its socioeconomic and political consequences in India. Those three elements are divide and rule, colonial education, and British laws.
The essay reinterprets the British colonial empire in India (the Raj, for short) as a state. Based on that reinterpretation it offers fresh assessments on three issues: how its policies shaped the economy of India, what lessons the postcolonial state drew from history, and the gains and costs of the postcolonial development strategy.
describe the British impact on Indian society and culture; and identify the reasons for the protest movements that took place under their rule before the revolt of 1857.
In this paper, I examine the colonial experience of one country, India, and estimate the di erential impact of British colonialism on directly ruled areas compared to areas under indirect control of the colonial power. I am able to solve the selection problem by using speci c policies of British colonial rule in India.
This volume examines the history of India from the collapse of the Mughal Empire to the end of colonialism in 1947. It analyses the features of the most important pre-colonial Indian states and the role played by the British colonialism in their destruction or reduction to political irrelevance.
British usurped the Portuguese and added India to its growing global empire. Although British rule in India was often oppressive and violent, British colonization of India led to an exchange between both societies that greatly influenced the trade, politics, and culture of each.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: section 2 describes the British colonial experience in India and the nature of indirect colonial rule in the native states. Section 3 discusses why indirect rule might have different long-term consequences than direct colonial rule.
