1..Colonial+rule+in+India

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media type="custom" key="20388048" major factor in the British conquest of India was the British East India Company. It played a dominant role in the process of conquest.

East India Company• Initially failed to wrest control of trade from the Dutch • Ships from the company arrived in India and traded • They made a huge profit • Initially King Charles gave license to other companies to trade in India • Later he revoked this and let the East India Company have a permanent monopoly in English-Indian trade

The British East India Company was making profits by exchanging opium for tea in China. When Chinese authorities tried to obstruct this traffic, Britain waged the Opium War (1839-1842) and through the treaty of Nanjing forced them to allow trade and to cede the island of Hong Kong. In the painting the mandarin called Li is ordering the destruction of 20,291 bales of opium.”

Motives for ConquestThe British had a driving motive for the conquest of India: profit. “The East India Company's trade was built on a sophisticated Indian economy. India offered foreign traders the skills of its artisans in weaving cloth and winding raw silk, agricultural products for export, such as sugar, the indigo dye or opium, and the services of substantial merchants and rich bankers.

Famine: • 1780-1790s: some millions Indians died of famine in Bengal, Benares, Jammu, Bombay and Madras. • 1800-1825: 1 million Indians died of famine • 1850-1875: 5 million Indians died of famine in Bengal, Orissa, Rajastan and Bihar • 1875-1900: 26 million Indians died of famine (1876-1878: 10 million)

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