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    British Takeover of India

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    and a better economy for India. Despite the detrimental cultural aspects implemented by the British occupation of India‚ Imperialism benefited the nation of India in the long run. Although there was an improvement in the economy and industrialization of India through the British occupation‚ the negative consequences felt by the Indian population outweigh any good that they may have done. While the British resided in India‚ they established a social ranking complex called a caste system. The caste

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    transportation for the travel. Document 2 How is British imperialism both positive and negative for India? The British were able to provide a politically peaceful and orders place. They helped them materially. The negative parts were that‚ the British/Europeans always took up the higher places in every department of government and they lived off the Indians work. Document 3 What benefits did India gain during British imperialism? British imperialism provided many benefits towards India one

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    British Paramountcy in India

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    declare themselves Independent ? To begin with the first. The basis of the claim made by the States for a right to declare themselves independent lies in the Statement of 12th May 1946 issued by the Cabinet Mission in which they say that the British Government could not and will not in any circumstances transfer paramountcy to an Indian Government which means that the rights of the States which follow from their relationship to the Crown will no longer exist and that all the rights surrendered

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    was one of the major trading ports of the eastern world‚ he obtained permission by Mānavikraman Raja to trade in the city from Saamoothiri Rajah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire). British empire has been in India since the early 1600 ’s‚ when the East India Company started trading and British missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools providing English education were set up trough out India by the early 1800 ’s. The process of producing English-speaking

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    day for Muslims‚ Hindus‚ Sikhs and many others. It marked the day of the British partition of India into a Muslim-controlled Pakistan and a Hindu-dominated India. India won its freedom from colonial rule‚ ending nearly 200 years of British rule. Many different events lead to the final decision of the partition. During the 18th and 19th centuries‚ the British gained full power over India. Bitterness towards the British developed as Hindus and Muslims were denied jobs and high positions in the

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    contrast extreme poverty. British Empire was the dominant power in the world at the Victorian era‚ and by the word empire according to oxford dictionary‚ we refer to “An extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch‚ an oligarchy‚ or a sovereign state” (oxforddictionaries.com). At that time‚ the monarch that was ruling is Queen Victoria; she brought England to its highest point of development as a world power. Queen Victoria expanded the British imperial abroad and colonized

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    Do you agree with the view that the British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one The British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one to an extent. The war seemed to boost the self esteem on Indians and unite them‚ suggesting threat against the raj‚ however the view in source 10 shows that there was no proof of a conspiracy‚ source 11 agrees with this but also shows why dyer might have acted in this way. Source 12 agrees with the fact that

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    such as John Charmley‚ have argued that Splendid Isolation was a fiction for the period prior to the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1892‚ and only something forced on them against their will following it. [1] Origin of the phrase As descriptive of British foreign policy‚ the phrase was most famously used by Lord Goschen‚ First Lord of the Admiralty‚ during a speech at Lewes ‚ Sussex‚ on 26 February 1896‚ when he said: "We have stood here alone in what is called isolation – our splendid isolation

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    and temperate climate. It lies in middle latitudes to the north-west of the great continental land mass of Eurasia. In Britain‚ south-westerly winds are the most frequent‚ and those from an easterly quarter the least. The stormiest region of the British isles is along the north-west coast‚ with over 30 gales a year‚ south-east England and the east Midlands are the least stormy. During a normal summer‚ the temperature occasionally rises above 27 in the south‚ but temperatures of 32 and above are

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    BRITISH SLANG AND ITS CLASSIFICATION The understanding of the native speakers’ language is the international problem for our people. Our secondary schools teach the students only the bases of the English language. Our universities do not prepare them to the British streets‚ accommodations‚ pubs where people use their own language‚ the language that differs from that of their parents. They use other words- they use slang. None of the most advanced and flexible ways of teaching English of any country

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