India Dbq Analysis

In the beginning of the 1600's, the East India Trading Company first landed in India. Once the EIC landed they immediately decided that they would take direct control of the area. Meaning that they had no regard for the inhabitants. After complete domination of India the EIC later had to deal with the Sepoy Mutiny; therefore, there was death and a change in leadership soon to fallow. Britain then took control of India by kicking out the smaller version of themselves, but over 50 years later history repeats itself with another massacre. Although Britain imperialism can be looked at positively by advances made in India, it is outweighed by its negative counterpart which crippled the country through India's economic shutdown, High death tolls,
For instance, in document 5 it describes what an officer from General Havelock's relieving force saw after the massacre in Cawnpore. He recalled how "the place was one mass of blood... Their body's were afterwards dragged out and thrown down a well outside the building where there limbs were to be seen sticking out in a mass of gory confusion" this helps show how high death tolls in India are negative because this officer was in shock of he amount of death he witnessed and described. More specifically, In document 6 it helps revel what the British did in retaliation to the attacks in Cawnpore. The British soldiers then followed orders saying that "every native that peaked in sight was shot down without question, and in the morning Colonel Neill [will send] out parties of regiment and burned all the villages near where the ruins of our bungalows stood". This then shows how violent actions were taken out on people who may have not even been in the Cawnpore massacre. This demonstrates how high death tolls affected India because of the attacks in Cawnpore. These attacks only led to revenge from the British after seeing the shocking events in Cawnpore which later led to even more deaths which the victims thought were just as shocking. If only the Cawnpore massacre never happened the amounts of violence fallowing would have never happened and would have been avoided. To finish, how the high death tolls was another