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Before ‘British India' a relationship formed between Indians and British through the British East India Company. India offered economic growth to British entrepreneurs who harnessed India's natural resources and manpower for low wages. Indian raw materials were shipped to British factories where they were manufactured into goods. Indians sometimes chose or were forced by British powers into growing cash crops, so they could no longer rely on their farms for subsistence and entered into a Capitalist method of exchange. Indians lost their autonomy of making material commodities, and became reliant on British goods. This system benefited the British both in providing materials to fuel the Industrial Revolution, and creating a mass of Indian consumers. |
| I took this picture in front of Buckingham Palace in London the day before I arrived in Pune. It was crazy to be in London, a gorgeous city with beautiful, huge monumments constructed from the money Britain earned from the labor of its colonies. | Legitimizing colonial rule by introducing a British-Indian political economy India's contemporary political economy Visit Saleha Erdmann'sCIS page to learn about Development, a process necessary because of colonialism's inequalities. |
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