UNIT 14 THE BRITISH COLONIAL STATE Structu’re 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Introduction Nature of the Colonial State The Political Economy of the Colonial State . Instmments of Control 14.4.1 14.4.2 14.4.3 14.4.4 The Colonial Military Apparatus The Police Organisation The Judiciary and Law The Bureaucracy - The Steel Frame of the Raj 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Sources of Legitimation Summary Glossary Exercises 14.1 INTRODUCTION The political structure ~ h i c h evolved in India under the British
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identities. Post-colonial literature can be considered as a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial writers focus on issues such as de-colonization and the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. However post-colonial literature cannot be described only by the definition above‚ many other issues have to be considered in order to fully understand post-colonial texts. In order to understand post-colonial texts‚ one
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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same. Modern slavery is currently followed for its high risk high reward‚ but in colonial times for America it was driven by the need for cheap labor leading to slavery to continue to current day. The varying forms of slavery include forced labor‚ Sex trafficking‚ and early marriage. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the system used to move slaves from Africa‚ to colonies in North America‚ to Brazil and South America. Slavery came from the Barbados to the Carolinas‚ and from there slavery spread
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Democracy in Bangladesh Bangladesh returned to electoral democracy in January 2009 after two years under a military ‘caretaker’ government. An alliance led by the Awami League (AL) secured a landslide victory in freely conducted election held in late 2008 under the auspices of the caretaker system. There were hopes that the political crisis and political crisis started in 2006. Constitutional Change On 30 June 2012‚ the Bangladesh Parliament‚ in the absence of opposition members‚ passed the Fifteenth
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The Colonial Period began with the settled countries of the time wanting to launch voyages to explore ’the new world’. One of the first successes was the Spanish‚ when they were able to settle in South America as early as 1252. But the biggest exploration of the time by far was set off by Columbus who‚ in search of the Indies‚ instead fell upon America‚ which started mass colonization. Colonization was so popular due to its trade worth and how much it could help the mother country‚ and with‚ in many
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of territory. As Dahrendorf states; "We want to find out what it is in German society that may account for Germany ’s persistent failure to give a home to democracy in its liberal sense". But can we really analyze the problem in this way? It has not always been the same "persistent failure" hindering Germany from giving a home for democracy‚ but rather the problems faced by Germany throughout history. To truly understand the German situation and its multiple struggles for unification‚ it is important
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The Three Colonial Regions The thirteen colonies were British colonies in North America founded between 1607 and 1732. The colonists who came to the New World were not alike‚ they came from a variety of different social and religious groups who settled in different locations along the Atlantic coast. They were divided up into the New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies. Each group came to the new continent for different reasons and created colonies with distinct social‚ political‚ and economic
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Colonialism brought many unfair practices to the Americas‚ among them was labor practices that exploited various Indigenous groups‚ especially Native Californians. At the time that mercantile companies were at their peak‚ labor practices in these places were extremely common. Fort Ross was especially known for using Indigenous people to run their company. Based on this‚ we can say that Fort Ross heavily relied on native labor to be a successful organization and for their business to survive. According
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three hundred years before the American Revolution‚ the colonial South was a kaleidoscope of different people and cultures. Yet all residents of the region shared two important traits. First‚ they lived and worked in a natural environment unlike any other in the American colonies. Second‚ like humans everywhere‚ their presence on the landscape had profound implications for the natural world. Exploring the ecological transformation of the colonial South offers an opportunity to examine the ways in which
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