East India Trading Company  Major influence in colonization  Primary purpose was to make money – did so through trading tea  Known for corruption & exploitation  Required Indians to serve in their army – sepoys  Allowed Hindu women to remarry

Sepoy Rebellion of 1858  Angry Indians rose up against the British East India Company – won at first  Quickly put down & many were massacred  Forced British Parliament to end BEIC rule & put Indian directly under the crown  Viceroy was appointed & reported to the queen

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The good, the bad and the ugly  Positive impact of British Colonial Rule: built roads, railroad network, introduced health care & new farming methods, and brought peace & order  Negative impact: destroyed the weaving industry, forced nomadic herders to be sedentary farmers which led to deforestation, health-care caused overpopulation & famine

Cultural Impact  Brits introduced western technology, education & ideology  Wanted to teach upper class Indians western ways in English  Positive in some ways because it led to a rebirth of ancient Indian civilization (Ram Mohun Roy)  Negative because many Brits viewed the Indian civilization poorly

Start of Indian Nationalism  Indian National Congress formed in 1885: a political group that wanted peaceful end to British imperialism  Muslim League formed in 1906: at first worked with the Indian National Congress, but later felt their own interests were threatened

Rudyard Kipling  Famous British poet and writer  Born in Bombay, India  Wrote famous works about British imperialism & adventures  The Jungle Book  The White Man’s Burden