Colonial India

 

Study Questions-Reading

Bulliet 648, 657-63

1.  What was the economic and social impact of the British in India during the 19th century?
2.  How did the idea of nationalism spread to India? What were the concerns of early Indian nationalists?

Human Record, pp. 336-9

1. What weaknesses did Roy see in traditional Indian learning?

2. What does Roy think that India needs from the Britain?

3. Why do you think the British wanted to promote Sanskrit schools?

The World that Trade Created, pp. 163-6, 228-30

1. Why were the East India Companies the world's first permanent corporations?
2. Why was the Indian cotton industry the most important in the world until the end of the 18th century?  How did the British kill the Indian cotton business?