COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Delhi, Allahabad
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Delhi, Calcutta
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Bengaluru, Pune
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Nainital, Dehradun
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bangalore was part of the Madras Presidency, and in 1864, the city was connected to Madras by rail. Still called the Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station, it is one of many railway stations servicing the city of Bangalore. Around 1883, Richmond Town, Benson Town and Cleveland Town were added to the cantonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first British barrack or cantonment in India was built in Barrackpore in 1772. Barrackpore also played a prominent part in India’s history of Independence as two rebellions against British authority took place here in the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cantonments were quickly established by the colonial armies of India as permanent military bases, spreading across more than one hundred locations by the mid-nineteenth century. These were scattered throughout the subcontinent, though concentrated within the north under the jurisdiction of the Bengal Presidency.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British Cantonment at Bangalore, established in 1809, contributed to modernising civil society in south India.