BRITISH  EMPIRE MAP

1. POLITICAL EXPANSION 1757-1857 (SEE STUDY GUIDE #1 )

2. ECONOMIC LOGIC OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION

(SEE  STUDY GUIDE #1 )

3. CHANGE IN BRITISH ATTITUDES

A. EARLY TRADERS:

Live in an era of Indian political dominance and fit in. Many with  Indian wives and families.

B. EARLY RULERS

Realize that to rule need to KNOW India, so a group of scholars and scholar-administrators emerge, known as the:

C. ORIENTALISTS

William Jones one of the best known. Learnt languages from Indian munshis

D. EVANGELICAL AND UTILITARIAN CRITICISM LEAD TO EMERGENCE OF THE "ANGLICISTS". 

Macaulay, author of the  Minute on Indian Education one of the best examples of the Anglicist position.

4. REVOLT OF 1857

A. NEITHER "MUTINY" NOR "WAR OF INDEPENDENCE"

B. MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION BY GROUPS WHO LOST THE MOST : A SECTION OF THE FORMER RULERS AND PEASANTS AND LANDLORDS.

C. GEOGRAPHICALLY LIMITED, BUT MAJOR THREAT TO THE BRITISH PRESENCE IN INDIA.  Fierce  Military Battles had to be fought to defeat the revolt.
 

D. PUT DOWN BRUTALLY With "Mutineers" Executed by being tied to and then blown from cannon
 

5. POST REVOLT CHANGES

A. POLITICAL CONTROL DIRECTLY BY BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND CROWN. EIC STRIPPED OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY.

B. CHANGES IN POLICIES THAT ALLOW INDIA TO BE BETTER MARKET FOR BRITISH GOODS. (SEE  STUDY GUIDE #1 )

C. CHANGES IN ATTITUDES: MORE EXCLUSIVITY OF WHITES IN INDIA, SCIENTIFIC RACISM, ETC. 

English officers lived away from the "natives" in  great style. They entertained themselves in grand yet exclusive clubs where Indians allowed  only as servants.