Liberalism and Empire, East and West

Liberalism and Empire, East and West

Introduction

India in British eyes was always a special possession. This special position was partly due to the fact, because it is so different from other colonies of settlement. It had a tremendous size and taller with its large population. This work is divided into the first part, the historical factor, which was divided into two parts, dealing with historical events, and the second part where the question to be answered is whether the British rule was positive or negative for the Indian industry. With India, the British were one of the greatest powers of the East, who exploited the Indians and drove them forward with the British trade. For the British, it was a golden age ("Victorian Age"), for the Indians, this time was indeed linked to progress, but also by growing population, riots, poverty and conflict.

Discussion

In the Georgian period, the UK became the first naval power in the world and one of the major colonial powers. Across Canada from 1756 to 1760 was occupied by British troops. George III had to secure the most of North America, several Caribbean islands and large areas in Africa by wars against France and Spain for the UK. Even the French were driven out of India. The supremacy of the British Empire in the first half of the 18th Century took effect on the national economy development and therefore to the country's development.

The British Empire was with the exception of settlement colonies in North America - not initially from territories, but from trading posts. The Economic power should flow back to London as wealth thus, developed the mercantile system of the first Colonial phase. By laws of the 17th Century allowed the export of foreign products in the European colonies allowed only after previous stacking in England. England became the emporium of the products of Colonies, because they were prevented from proprietary trading. Moreover, had the money of well-paid colonists in England invested or spent on English goods, since purchases abroad were prohibited. This was also an important foundation for the development of the Industrial Revolution, as many investments went into industrialization.

Describe the type of British power in India during this period [late 18th and mid-19th centuries?

The end of the colonial expansion of the British Crown was already apparent when the British clashed with other powers - such as during the Boer War (1899-1902) - had. The high point of British imperialism between approximately 1895 and 1902 was not only a period of transition, but also the time of determination of England to decolonization and global alliance relationships. In the first phase of the transformation of the British Empire to a League of Nations, namely from 1838 to 1865 (the year of adoption of the so-called Colonial Laws Validity Act 4), had for the British colonies of settlement an "almost complete freedom of movement legislation and responsible self-government" developed. In the second phase, which lasted from 1867 until the First ...