HIST104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Shampoo, William Wilberforce, Nawab
Document Summary
One topic will be on tokugawa japan and the ottoman empire - link them. Second topic will be about the atlantic slave trade. Third will be on the pursuit of liberty - revolutions. India would not exist as a single country today had it not been for british imperialism. One of the legacies of british rule was more cast division than had existed before. India is the world"s biggest parliamentary democracy, can credit some of this to britain. One example is in the popularity of indian food in britain. Also on the english language - pajamas, shampoo, bungalow, veranda, jungle, etc. Relationship between india and britain goes back a long way. Goes back to beginning of the 17th century. British trading interests in india began in 1600s. This company was interested in trading in things like sink and spices. At this time much of the indian subcontinent was ruled by the. Land they conquered had a majority hindu populations.
