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Economic Policies of the British in India

Economic Policies of the British in India: A Critical Examination (Mid-18th Century to 1947)

Introduction The economic history of colonial India is closely intertwined with the policies and practices of the British East India Company (EIC) and later the British Crown. From the mid-18th century, following the Battle of Plassey (1757), the British consolidated their control over vast territories of India, marking the beginning of a systematic transformation of…

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British Imperial Power

Assessing the Role of British Imperial Power in Complicating the Process of Transfer of Power during the 1940s

Introduction The decade of the 1940s was one of the most turbulent and transformative phases in the history of modern India. It was the decade that witnessed the end of nearly two centuries of British colonial rule and the birth of two sovereign states — India and Pakistan. However, the process of this transfer of…

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