British Raj Imperialism

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The British Raj attempted to colonize India in an organized fashion while utilizing its luxury, wealth and pleasure. However, that wasn’t always the case. A majority of the time, the British Raj faced political confusion, revolts, and extreme racism towards both British and Indian people. These conflicts were hidden by the common stereotype that India was a realm of spice, wealth, and glory. Suggesting the British Raj was beneficial to the Indian subcontinent would be an indistinct opposition.
To learn why the British Raj was detrimental to the Indian subcontinent, one must first learn what the British Raj is and its history. The period of dominion of the British Raj lasted from 1858 to 1947. The British Raj separated India into the notorious …show more content…

Popularity in modern industry grew as colonialism advanced and as a result raw materials became necessary to feed that industry. The immediate solution was to de-industrialize India, to prevent clashing between the Indian and British economies, and begin taking India’s raw materials, usually made into elegant handicrafts, and turn them into cheap products, like woolen clothes or cotton clothes. India suddenly, having the need for finished products, becomes a marketplace to sell cheap commodities, and if one looks at the overall scheme of this, one simple conclusion comes to mind: India was paying for its own destruction. With the money made off of India, the British used the profit to reimburse the war debt, pay British employee salaries, and maintain the army. This became a never-ending cycle of loss and debt for India reducing India’s wealth; basically India’s loss of wealth and local goods became an advantage to the British. India’s decreasing wealth bankrolled the British Empire and its activities, which most likely explains why it was such a strong European power. Had India prevented colonialism by the British, it would continue to flourish exports and free …show more content…

In reality, there remained a lack for the need of colonization, especially in the development of industrialized communication and transport. For example, the Japanese and the Russian developed railways without colonialization; railways received funding by government initiatives formulated by the Japanese and Russian governments. Considering the proximity between Japan and India, India’s government would’ve caught wind of the idea sooner or later. Furthermore, railways had one simple purpose, to ease transportation on the British; the popular purpose, and perhaps the more common one, engrossed the transporting of materials from India to Great Britain. The railroads had no intended purpose to serve the Indian public as a method of transportation. The relocation diffusion that resulted due to the creation of railways was a mere bi-product of the system; no one controlled the supply and demand of railways, it was simply to aid the administration. On the contrary colonialized railways played a significant role in the elaborate scam designed by the British; investing large portions of their wealth British stockholders did, in response, the British government paid them disproportionate returns, to the Britons benefit, graciously provided by Indian ‘taxes’. The other convenience provided to the British by the creation of

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