POLS 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Hybridity, Comprador, Settler Colonialism
16 Sep 2017
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Colonialism and underdevelopment: terms and concepts such as the renaissance, reformation, enlightenment, scientific and industrial revolutions are seen as signposts on a journey towards modernity that. India and britain: from its creation in 1600 by a charter of queen elizabeth i of england, the british east. India company strove for the right to trade with india: sir thomas appeared as a supplicant at the court of the great moghul, entreating him for the right to trade with india along the western coastline. Empire was at its zenith and its sovereignty extended over nearly the entire subcontinent. It primarily bought cheap in india cotton textiles, silks, spices, ivory, handicrafts, and other exotic goods and sold dear in europe: yet it was kept in restraint for at least two reasons. In the aftermath of the revolt, formal sovereignty was handed over from the. In india, the displaced workers, artisans and craftsmen moved in the opposite direction.
