HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mahatma Gandhi, Captive Market, Uny
23 Oct 2016
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Outline of (cid:862)empire(cid:863: china: subject to a series of unequal treaties with western powers starting in 1842, latin america: becomes captive market and occasional site of political interventions for. India: british begin colonizing in 1757 through the east indian company, british government takes over in 1858: africa: partitioned starting with berlin conference in 1884. Spread of one political system all over the planet 1/3 people who live on the planet are colonized at one point. Characteristics of empire: formal empire has small footprints. Population of british officials in india never exceeded 0. 03% of the population small governing staff. Comprised of british-controlled provinces and princely states where britain had little control. (cid:862)the e(cid:374)glish ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)ot take(cid:374) i(cid:374)dia; (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) it to the(cid:373)(cid:863) mohandas gandhi: empire is not enormously profitable. Colonies as considered from the point of view of the government loses money (funding wars, not obtaining sufficient revenue from taxation)
