Imperialism+in+India


 * Imperialism in India **


 * After the Mughal Empire fell, only the British and French empires were left to take presence in India. Afterwards, British had managed to demote Frances’ presence to commercial presence alone. Over time, India had gradually came under Britain's political and commercial dominance, establishing three major cities known as Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, these cities became major trading and manufacturing places not to mention The East India Company’s developments. During the nineteenth century, India was a large producer of manufactured goods and raw materials. Not before long did it become the British empire's largest colonized population. While at first, the British tried to focus on converting the Indian people to Christianity and establishing European social mores, Europeans soon had to adopt indigenous culture like style of dress, housing, and political symbols. But as the British became more like the Indian people so too did the Indian become more Westernized, not only did they learn english they became more literate, better educated, but they completely moved aside the transcendence of life to the development and transformation of it before the transcendence. **
 * Because most Europeans in the army were men, they married and lived with indigenous women. The British peoples also kept the Indian culture “at arms length.” Military bases were made so soldiers would remain in the walls of the bases rather than among the Indian peoples. **
 * The sepoy mutiny or Indian revolution in 1857, sepoys of the British East India Company’s military revolted and started a mutiny. This led to other mutinies and revolts in mostly central India. These revolutions posed a considerable threat to the British East Asia Company until it was ended with the fall of Gwalior. Later because Sepoy Mutiny failed, after the defeat many of the remaining troops were scattered and hunted down by the British. **
 * Although the British remained in power for only 90 years they left a bigger impact on the people of India than the presence of the long ruling muslims, not only did the British help the development in economic power of India but their social structure as well. **

** “The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilization lies unveiled before our eyes, turning from its home, where it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies, where it goes naked. Did they not, in India, to borrow an expression of that great robber, Lord Clive himself, resort to atrocious extortion, when simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity? While they prated in Europe about the inviolable sanctity of the national debt, did they not confiscate in India the dividends of the rajahs, who had invested their private savings in the Company's own funds? While they combated the French revolution under the pretext of defending "our holy religion," did they not forbid, at the same time, Christianity to be propagated in India, and did they not, in order to make money out of the pilgrims streaming to the temples of Orissa and Bengal, take up the trade in the murder and prostitution perpetrated in the temple of the Juggernaut? These are the men of "Property, Order, Family, and Religion." ” ** ** -Karl Marx, __The New-York Daily Tribune__. 22 July, 1853. **


 * Sources **
 * Ciechanowski, Walt. The Imperial Age: British India. Print. The Imperial Age. **
 * "British Imperialism in India: Need To Know." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 21 Mar. 2012. **
 * Stearns, Peter N. World Civilizations: The Global Experience. New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. Print. **
 * "Sepoy Mutiny 1857." Free Encyclopedia & Web Portal on Indian Culture & Lifestyle. 15 Mar. 2012. Web. 02 Apr. 2012. . **