1. British in India

2. East India Company Chartered in 1600
Purpose: make money (not control land)
British and French fighting wars on three continents – competed for trade to make money for the wars

3. East India Company
That is the same East India Trading Company in Pirates of the Caribbean

4. Where else did the French and British settle in order to make money to pay for these wars?

5. Arrived when Mughals in decline 1757
Based in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay

6. Why would the East India Company base themselves in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay (hint: think about where they are located)

7. British Problems in India
Low pay for officials – allowed to trade
Corruption in dealing w/ Indians
Little centralized policy or rules

8. Lord Cornwallis (Governor General 1786-93)
Born in British India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England before returning to India in 1882, where his father was a museum director and authority on Indian arts and crafts. Thus Kipling was thoroughly immersed in Indian culture: by 1890 he had published in English about 80 stories and ballads previously unknown outside India. As a result of financial misfortune, from he and his wife, the daughter of an American publisher, lived in Vermont, where he wrote the two Jungle Books. After returning to England, he published "The White Man's Burden" in 1899, an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War. As a writer, Kipling perhaps lived too long: by the time of his death in 1936, he had come to be reviled as the poet of British imperialism, though being regarded as a beloved children's book author. Today he might yet gain appreciation as a transmitter of Indian culture to the West.
Born in British India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England before returning to India in 1882, where his father was a museum director and authority on Indian arts and crafts. Thus Kipling was thoroughly immersed in Indian culture: by 1890 he had published in English about 80 stories and ballads previously unknown outside India. As a result of financial misfortune, from he and his wife, the daughter of an American publisher, lived in Vermont, where he wrote the two Jungle Books. After returning to England, he published "The White Man's Burden" in 1899, an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War. As a writer, Kipling perhaps lived too long: by the time of his death in 1936, he had come to be reviled as the poet of British imperialism, though being regarded as a beloved children's book author. Today he might yet gain appreciation as a transmitter of Indian culture to the West.
Lord Cornwallis (Governor General )
Cleaned up corruption
Raised pay
Ended black market & personal trade

9. Lord Cornwallis
That is the same Gen. Cornwallis that fights and later surrenders to the Americans in the American Revolution

10. How do people react when outsiders try to change their way of life?

11. Sepoy Rebellion 1857
Sepoys - India troops serving in the British army

12. Rumors of pork & beef fat greased cartridges for rifles

14. Why would pork and beef grease be a problem for the Indian troops?

15. Indian troops demeaned
Local Indian troops revolted against the British Influence

17. Result of Rebellion Britain took power away from East India Company
Claimed India as a colony
Queen Victoria

18. Sent Mughal rulers into exile
Set up civil service, or body of officials, as a colonial government

19. Changes British Made in India
Education stressed Western values
Created Victorian gentlemen

20. Trained Indians as clerks and other low-level positions
Little effort was made to train Indians for management positions

21. India villages before British were self-contained & self-sufficient; land was owned by the village, not individuals – British wanted a village system to provide cash to their empire

22. Taxes did not exist before
British assigned ownership land to the people working it
Taxed the land – zamindar system
To pay taxes in a barter system, the villagers borrowed from moneylender & went into debt

23. Machines made products -- made village handicraft industry obsolete
Railroad network was built throughout the country
Jute & cotton were exported to Britain
Britain sent cloth & manufactured goods back to India

24. Britain was more interested in bolstering its own economic system at home than in modernizing India economic systems

25. Britain failed to understand Indian thinking or concerns

26. British felt superior to Indians – “White Man’s Burden”
“Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.”