Raj Kapoor

Anciently, imperialism has developed with the rise of human’s civilisation. Imperialism defined as per Cambridge dictionary as ‘a system or a situation where one country with superior power used force or influence to rule and exploit another country’ (Cambridge dictionary, 2017). In the contemporary colonial era, many European intellectuals and thinkers have justified imperialism such as Rudyard Kipling with his famous poem ‘The White Man’s Burden’ (Kiplingsociety.co,uk, 2017). The poem reflected

The latter half of the nineteenth century brought about the introduction of detective fiction into popular culture, the stronghold of British colonialism in India, and the characterization of one of the most celebrated detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes. While the British East India Company occupied Indian territories far before the Crown in the seventeenth century, the extent to which brutal and divisive colonial practices took place, increased substantially after the British government annexed

On this Special Day I would like to recollect the words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the eve of India’s Independence. “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance .... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India

The British rule in India is known through history. The reasons why the British colonized India might have been economic interest that they had over it. Due to this, the British settled their administration and controlled the place. The British tent to create their own society in India and settled there, having all of the advantages. This settlement of the British in India, the way they ruled the colonized country, the way they behaved towards the locals and their living there, is best described

Trade with India If I were financing trade with India, my biggest worry would be on Foreign Currency Translation Risk. This relates to conversion of a bank's financial statements from one currency to another. At a time when international credit markets experienced gross inflows of short term credit to India, major world economies were facing economic down turn. Even the United States whose currency is used in major international trade was at this time grappling with recession. The dollar lost marginally

British colonization was more tactical than that of other colonial rule. The key agenda of the British was to get maximum economic benefits from this region. In the beginning of 17th century, East India Company was granted permission by the Mughal ruler Jahangir to start its business activities in India. This organization was supposed to do business and earn profits by trade via sea but soon they tried to become a monopoly and as they were fully armed therefore managed to draw its means from land

ahead ceremoniously since its inception in 1853. It has completed a glorious 162 years, enjoyed the best and worst times during its long history starting with the British Colonoial Raj to the present. Through history, the railways have been deemed a ‘calamity’ and a ‘boon’. Romesh Chandra Dutta, critic of the British Raj in Indian, described the railways as ‘wasteful expenditure’ and a ‘hazardous and dangerous venture’. Karl Marx wrote: “I known that the English sultocracy intends to endow India

The British East India Company was an English and later (from 1707) British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. The government owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Company eventually came to rule large areas of India with

Did you know that British Raj is a term for the period when British ruled India from the late 1858 until 1947? This all started when Portuguese found India which then was introduced by British. British had interest on India because they had a lot of resource which led British to conquer India in 1858. ("The Economic Effects of the British"). However, after India became independent, British left an incredible negative impact on the Indians. This negative impact was demonstrated by the British killing

The British held that their system would invoke an ethic of improvement. England continued to expand its seizure of Indian lands. Once England won formal rule in India, its intentions were to civilize - educate, govern and train - the Indians so that they could become productive. It wasn’t until the middle of the twentieth century that India, through its use of peaceful resistance, rebelled against the British Crown which eventually relented and relinquished a portion of India to its original landowners