COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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the British
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the East India Company
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Ghandi
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Pakistan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of Fort William (Bengal) who oversaw the Company’s territories in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Clive, who led the company’s 3, 000-person army, became Bengal’s governor and began collecting taxes and customs, which were then used to purchase Indian goods and export them to England. The company then built on its victory and drove the French and Dutch out of the Indian subcontinent.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the East India Company? The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jahangir, the fourth Mughal emperor gave permission for trade to the British East India Company. Q. The British East India Company obtained the permission to trade without tax in the Bengal province and Agra from the Mughal Emperor .
Detailed explanation-5: -The British Raj was the period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria.