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3 Σεπ 2024 · British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent following the uprising of 1857 and the abolition of the East India Company’s role in managing the region. It was instituted with the Government of India Act of 1858 and lasted until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
12 Ιουλ 2023 · In 40 years, between 1880 and 1920, British colonialism killed 100 million Indians and, according to research by economic historian, Robert Allen, extreme poverty in India increased under British rule, from 23% in 1810 to more than 50% in the mid-20th century.
27 Νοε 2013 · The British Empire in Africa went through several distinct phases. From the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade to the mid-19th century, the British imperial presence was limited to a small handful of trading forts on the West African coast, the seizure of the Cape Colony from the Dutch, and a protectorate over the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
1 Σεπ 2019 · There is evidence of democratic advantages at independence among indirectly ruled British colonies, British colonies without metropolitan legal institutions, short-ruled British colonies, and when subsetting the data to only include Sub-Saharan African colonies.
Key learning points. By 1876, Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India, ruling with the help of a viceroy and anglicised Indian elite. The British improved infrastructure in India for economic purposes and implemented healthcare initiatives.
Analysing public expenditure trends confirms that British rule in colonial India and Africa followed no discernible external logic of promoting political ‘responsibility’ or ‘capacity’. Instead, its chief purpose was to maintain the convenience of British rule.
The Impact of British Rule in India M. S. Rajan There is a story that when an Indian politician in the course of his electioneering campaign in a rural area claimed that his party had driven out the British and achieved independence for India, a lowly peasant innocently asked: 'But when did the British come to India ?'
