Imperialism, II: India and Africa  India  East India Company  Sepoy Revolt (1857)  causes  effects  British reforms & the Raj  Mughals  Victoria  Sati

Sepoy Mutiny (1857)

Victoria, declared Empress in 1877

Opium Imports into China  1729: 200 chests  1767: 1,000 chests  1800: 4,500 chests  1825: 10,000 chests  1838: 40,000 chests

Young English superintendent inspecting with local India officials

A young maharajah and his British guardians

Tea plantation bungalow (1930s)

English child an servant

One of a series of postcards depicting household servants

Comic postcard depicting the perceived foibles of Indian servants

English woman being carried on sedan chair into the hills

 Impact of British rule  Political unity  Western education  Railroads  Banking & mining  Textile industries  Caste system  Poverty

 Africa  The scramble  Treaties  Military advantages  Conflict among the colonizers: Boer War  Berlin Conference  Khoikhoi  Afrikaner  Afrikaans  Great Trek  Zulus  Orange Free State  Transvaal  Cecil Rhodes  Union of South Africa

 Africa under European rule  Britsh expansion  Belgian Congo  Acquisition  Regime of terror  Forced labor  Opposition in Europe  Leopold II  Stanley  Force Publique (FP)  Edmund More  Roger Casement  Joseph Conrad

 Impact on Africa  State formation, ethnic boundaries & resources  Civil service & justice  Pan-Africanism  Integration in global economy  Delay of industrial and technological development  Western education  Psychological outlook  Achebe’s Things Fall Apart