Imperialism In 19th Century India

People are influenced by the masses, and by the power they may attain when taking control over territories. The fact is, that in the past people were guided by the blind, their rulers, so eventually they too began to go blind. Imperialism is exploiting and extending a country’s power by means of diplomacy or military force. Which is taking what is not rightfully ones’, like property, and exploiting it by selling and using the product made by that land. Throughout the years, imperialism has taken place in several parts of the world.
Imperialism has been seen throughout the years, but began to flourish though the late 18th century and into the early 19th century. There is said to be two types of Imperialism, one is formal and the other informal; formal is what you call

“brute force”, then there’s informal, which is indirect and focused more on economical control. Great Britain was a major role in imperialism, because they had attained most of the territory; Great Britain used informal imperialism. They gained the territory, by turning the people against one another; they didn’t care who got hurt in the process, they only cared for the power that came after the fight. One example of this horrendous work, was in 1700, when Great Britain tried to take over India. Britain was said to have used a strategy called Divide and Conquer in order to control the reigns in Indians Sub Continent.

They began to divide the native Muslims and the native Hindus, they wanted to create a religious conflict between the two. They took advantage of the conflict that they had and used that as an excuse to help them be “stable”. In 1857, Britain finally conquered India; native Muslims and native Hindus began to fight. The great conflict was called the Sepoy Mutiny, this was the result of a rumor, it was said that the Indians that worked with the Britain army had done wrong by their religion. As said before, the British had purposely separated the Hindus and the Muslims; they have different beliefs, the Muslim don’t eat pork, and the Hindu worship the cows. The Sepoy Mutiny was the biting of a greased cartridge, which was either covered in cow or pig fat. The beginning of an uprising commenced with the killing of all Europeans, at the end 200 Europeans had died. Great Britain had allowed too much death of their “own”, so they took control of the situation. Another example of imperialism, was when the Dutch and Britain try to take over South Africa. The Dutch had begun placing trade post for slaves for many years, and had been living in South Africa for over

220 years. These people were called Boers, after many years they started entering South Africa. In the 1870s, King Leopold of Belgaum had sent emissaries to penetrate the Central Africa, to set up trade relationships with tribal reigns. This made other European nations want some of Africa’s land, this led to the Berlin Conference. The Berlin Conference was when all the leaders came together, they got a map, a knife, and cut up the map. In the year 1830, the Boers met an African tribe, the Zulus, they put up a fight, and won the Boers.