Colonialsim in India
The term colonialism is often used interchangeable with imperialism, but colonialism - the conquest and dominance of indigenous people by a foreign nation - can be regarded as a special form of imperialism.1 In the writing of modern history, the usage of the terms imperialism and colonialism is linked to the development of political and economic power overseas, and to the formation of capitalism. Imperialism, in a broad definition can be defined as the superior economic and political power that a given state or territory has over another.2 The essential difference between Colonialism and Imperialism is that the latter implies political and economic influence in a given state or territory without direct political rule, whereas the former implies the direct political conquest and rule by the foreign power.3
Even in the different stages of British there was one feature of Indian colonialism that stood out as a unique feature to India, that being the establishment of direct and economic and political power that was controlled through the imperial state centered in England. The direct economic and political power that the Indian continent experienced from British rule, can be divided into three different stages.4 The first stage was from the eighteenth century onwards, when the primary interest was to make the greatest profit out of the region (though economic and political domination was still evident). For example, in the eighteenth century the East India company entered the country as a trading company, and traded to make a profit out of the local revenue.5 It then bought what it needed, to in order to sell the
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