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26 Μαΐ 2024 · The deadly impact of British rule in India can be attributed to the Empire‘s single-minded pursuit of wealth extraction, its disregard for the welfare of the Indian population, and its systematic erosion of India‘s traditional industries, knowledge systems, and cultural heritage.
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.
The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors.
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.
11 Αυγ 2017 · Doubt and self-loathing. In the early 1920s, the Indian independence movement grew in prominence and received a significant level of sympathy at home and abroad. In 1919, the Amritsar Massacre of...
Q1. In 1776, what happened to Britain's empire in America? Britain gained many new American colonies. Britain's American colonies rebelled against the British Empire and were lost.
It is too soon to be certain about all the reasons for the British quitting India - though obviously the most important was Indian pressure. The drawing up of a fair balance sheet of the I50 years of British rule is an even more formidable task. One need only read, for example, Percival Griffith's The British Impact on India
