Imperialism+as+a+part+of+Industrialization-+India+and+Southeast+Asia

Emma Chilton, Michael Dohmann, Tamiris Askarova, Patricia Fernandez

__The British empire in India__ Influenced trade through English East India Company
 * European imperialism**
 * Major cities of trade in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay
 * Sepoys- Indian troops helping British to control India
 * Britain's desire to control India was due to a rivalry with France
 * Robert Clive was the representative of the EIC
 * He won a battle against the ruler of Bengal at Plassey in 1757
 * Sepoy mutiny, 1857: attacks on British civilians led to swift British reprisals
 * British imperial rule replaced the EIC, 1858
 * British viceroy and high-level British civil service ruled India and controlled domestic policies
 * Europeans controlled the local aristocracies
 * Indians held low-level bureaucratic positions
 * Built railroads and telegraph lines, new canals, harbors, and irrigation methods
 * British rule did not interfere with Indian culture or Hindu religion
 * Established English-style schools for Indian elites



British East India Company

__Imperialism in Central and Southeast Asia__ "The Great Game" refers to competition between Britain and Russia in central Asia ([])
 * Russian dominance of Central Asia lasted until 1991
 * Dutch East India Company controled Indonesia (Dutch East India)
 * British colonies in southeast Asia: Burma in 1880s, Singapor 1824, conquest of Malay 1870
 * French Indochina created, 1859-1893
 * By dominating the local aristocracies the Europeans were able to control the area




 * India and Southeast Asia were colonies of Great Britian and other european countries
 * therefore they were used for thier raw materials to fuel the industrial revolution in Europe
 * industrial revolution had a generally negative effect
 * Imperialism benefitted European nations

The East India Trading Company was an excellent example of the nature of imperialism, as well as its effects on industry. Industrialization was characterized in part by the development of large corporations, and the era in which it occured was characterized by nationalism, and imperialism. There is no better example which intertwines the two better than The East India Trading Company, which began as just a corporation, but eventually began to conquer lands throughout South and Southeast Asia. The East Trading Company imposed british rule on a large portion of the Indian subcontinent following the decline of the Mughal Dynasty, while also causing a series of Opium Wars fought primarily in China, which also effected the areas south of China. The East India Trading Company spread British imperial rule to places such as Burma and Malacca. Along with British rule, came the spread of industrialization, which became somewhat of a policy during this era. The colonized places became areas that were dependent on the European economies. Transportation systems were mainly built in order to move raw materials from the interior regions to the coasts. Mining areas grew and both cultivated and uncultivated places were changed to areas that produced commodities. Other European nations went on the colonize all countries in southeast asia with the exception of Siam (modern day Thailand). Flag of the East India Trading Company

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