COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the Sepoy rebellions of 1857-58, the British government reorganized India in order to rule it directly through British officials in India. “The raj (British India) is a classic example of an imperial power ruling through local elites (who were often the recipients of an English education)."
Detailed explanation-2: -In what ways did the Sepoy Mutiny change the political climate of India? The Sepoy Mutiny fueled the racist attitudes of the British. The mutiny also increased distrust between the British and the Indians.
Detailed explanation-3: -Government of India Act of 1858 Much of the blame for the mutiny fell on the ineptitude of the East India Company. On August 2, 1858, Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring British power over India from the company to the crown.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mutiny did not lead the British to question what they considered their right to colonise India, it made them search for the errors they thought they had made in their colonial rule. So began what is popularly termed the British Raj (rule). On 1 June 1874, Parliament formally dissolved the East India Company.