gentleman was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist‚ Governor of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George‚ at Madras (now Chennai‚ India). He was a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut‚ which was renamed in his honor in 1718. In British India‚ he secured the areas of Egmore‚ Puruswalkam and Tondiarpet (the now-busy shopping areas of Chennai) from the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb for the East-India company. Who? 4. This building (shown in the Pic 9) is a 60‚000 square
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of goods from India. According to a widely distributed World History textbook‚ the main goal of the British in India was to make money. The British officials in India forced the native Indians to stop growing their necessary crops and to focus entirely on cash crops. This only led to a tremendous famine that swept through India. Though the British gained a lot of money from these cash crops‚ the Indians only fell deeper into poverty. To make matters even worse‚ the East India Company closed the once
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sugar makes the medicine go down.” It is likely that the people of New Guinea were the first culture to domesticate sugarcane‚ probably around 8‚000 BC. Because it’s sugar‚ it spread throughout Southeast Asia like wildfire. It reached China and India‚ both of which developed refining processes that turned the juice into crystals. In the sixth century AD‚ all of this had reached Persia‚ and went on to capture the Mediterranean when the Arabs expanded. It spread to the Spanish as well‚ and from
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bring India into their empire. Incredible ambitious. Begin career as clerk for East Indian Company. He tried to commit suicide twice. Desperately unhappy and wanted to do something with his life. Siraj Ud- Dula was beginning to resist the East Indian Company. Clive said I know how to defeat this man the Indians had more people than the East Indian Company. He went around and begins to buy loyalty of generals to rebel against the prince. The Battle of Plessey 1757- Between East Indian Company and Siraj
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Globalization in India 79 rate or flag this page By premsingh glimpses Click thumbnail to view full-size Fatehpur Sikri Socialization of people for improving business and financial activities across the globe can be referred as globalization. It is not a new phenomena as people kept searching new places and avenues to increase their business activities as evident by explorations of Vasco degama‚ Columbus and East India Company. Bitter experiences from East India Companies & British rule
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was a direct response to the Tea Act‚ an act created to save the East India Tea company‚ left the colonists paying very high taxes on tea. Many people drank tea and enjoyed it very much so it left many of the colonists upset and angry. On December 5‚ 1773‚ the last of 3 ships of tea docked at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. Each ship carried more than 100 chests of tea‚ an accumulative total of over 300 chests of tea. The British East India Company’s
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also signifies a lost regality. He is now no more the king of Mysore. On the other hand‚ there is David Baird in his formidable attire‚ signifying that Britain is the new ruler of Mysore‚ and not only of Mysore but also of the entire land known as India. This is sort of reinforced by David Baird’s forefinger‚ which points in an undefined‚ general direction. Through the pointing of his
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the Kanpur rebellion during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II‚ he was entitled to a pension from the English East India Company. The Company’s refusal to honor the pension‚ as well as its generally arrogant policies compelled him to revolt and seeks freedom from British rule in India On june 4th 1857‚ the Indian troops attacked the British officers and set fire to their headquarters. The entire European community of 1000 men‚ women and children
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Imperialism: Europe’s Quest to Conquer the World Imperialism: the establishment of a policy extending control or authority over foreign entities in a political‚ cultural‚ and economic way as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. This is either through direct territorial conquest or settlement‚ or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. Some takeovers were brought upon by rivalries‚ while others would do it to boost the imperial
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Anand including what he believed to be the responsibilities of the writer. It goes on to explain how‚ through his work‚ Anand hoped to fuse the past with the contemporary mindset and technical knowledge and integrate them to secure a humanitarian India. This chapter looks at the differences in home-life circumstances and hygiene. It investigates the double-standard present among Indian residents and British rulers. It also evaluates the conflict of a modernized‚ industrial way of life versus an agricultural
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