British Colonialism: The Role Of British Imperialism In India

In the era of imperialism, some countries seized the world hegemony by plundering the territories of others countries and developing their own economy and culture aggressively in their colonial countries. As an important fuse, the emergence and development of capitalism had a significant impetus of formation of imperialism. Just as the core-periphery geographical form conveys, these imperialist countries divided the world greedily, and the capitalist classes suppressed the lower classes unfairly in both their own country and colonial countries.

Take the Great Britain as an example, since Columbus discovered the new route, the world have become more connected. Gradually, the Atlantic coast of Europe became the world’s major trading centre started

The completion of the first industrial revolution brought an important stage in the development in British capitalism; as the same time, it marked that Britain embarked on a path of colonization and plunder. In the name of selling British goods, building factories abroad and disseminating cultures, they actually violently invaded their colonial countries; plundered countless wealth and accumulated huge amount of capital. Personally, I think the British colonization of India is the most worthy to discuss. Above all, the establishment of British East India Company is the prelude to modern imperialism. India offered a huge overseas market for the d Britain, stimulated the development of the later industrial revolutions. Almost 200 years colonial domination of India, Britain became the strongest capitalist and imperialist in the world at that time. British colonialists achieved their first geographical reunification and effective rule for nearly two centuries by violently administering India. In term of India, an ancient civilization with thousand years of history, western political economic system and cultures implanted throughout the depths of the marrow and substance for the entire nation. The Indian people not only suffered red long-term poverty and the horror f wars, but also lost their dignity in their own country. Without any doubt, the long history of Indian people’s oppression of British

But at this moment, I would like to briefly discuss the positive effects that British colonialism brought to India. First, Britain completely destroyed some Indian feudal societies and customs, which helped to promote the development of India’s modernization. Secondly, Britain established a model of Western capitalist society in India, thus laying the foundation for India’s economic development and making a great progress in Indian society. Overall, the British influence on Indian society was not only superficial, but a powerful impact on Indian’s traditional social structures and values. In other words, Britain changed the Indian civilization with western civilization and transformed the Indian society with the Western system. That is precisely what I want to express, in the core-periphery geographical form, it mainly focuses on the protagonist position of imperialism in society and its oppressive relationship with lower ranks during that period of history, which seriously hindered the progress of the entire society and was condemned and opposed by the proletariat and people all over the world; however, to a certain extent, this hegemonic imperialism has actually accelerated the. pace of the world’s