HIS282H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Good Governance, Indentured Servant, Final Good
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Remember: how did the british become rulers, challenges of consolidating rule, 1857 revolt and restructuring. Toda(cid:455)"s (cid:272)lass: development of underdevelopment, capitalism, imperialism and industrialization, south asia and colonial economy. England has to fulfill a double mission in india: one destructive, the other regenerating the annihilation of old asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of western society in. Asia (cid:862)e(cid:374)gla(cid:374)d, it is t(cid:396)ue, i(cid:374) (cid:272)ausi(cid:374)g a so(cid:272)ial (cid:396)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) i(cid:374) hi(cid:374)dosta(cid:374), (cid:449)as a(cid:272)tuated o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:448)ilest i(cid:374) (cid:863) British are providing new stuff to india(railways) Realizes the mistakes of the british, india was constantly in debt. This is a bleeding process, with a vengeance. Britain is sucking all the resources from india. Financial mechanisms of british rule transferred unrequited wealth and income from india. Britain did extract revenue from india: but exercised good governance, peace and order and efficient administration, created better conditions for indians.
