Imperialism In 19th Century India

People are influenced by the masses, and by the power they may attain when taking control over territories. The fact is, that in the past people were guided by the blind, their rulers, so eventually they too began to go blind. Imperialism is exploiting and extending a country’s power by means of diplomacy or military force. Which is taking what is not rightfully ones’, like property, and exploiting it by selling and using the product made by that land. Throughout the years, imperialism has taken place in several parts of the world.
Imperialism has been seen throughout the years, but began to flourish though the late 18th century and into the early 19th century. There is said to be two types of Imperialism, one is formal and the other informal; formal is what you call

They began to divide the native Muslims and the native Hindus, they wanted to create a religious conflict between the two. They took advantage of the conflict that they had and used that as an excuse to help them be “stable”. In 1857, Britain finally conquered India; native Muslims and native Hindus began to fight. The great conflict was called the Sepoy Mutiny, this was the result of a rumor, it was said that the Indians that worked with the Britain army had done wrong by their religion. As said before, the British had purposely separated the Hindus and the Muslims; they have different beliefs, the Muslim don’t eat pork, and the Hindu worship the cows. The Sepoy Mutiny was the biting of a greased cartridge, which was either covered in cow or pig fat. The beginning of an uprising commenced with the killing of all Europeans, at the end 200 Europeans had died. Great Britain had allowed too much death of their “own”, so they took control of the situation. Another example of imperialism, was when the Dutch and Britain try to take over South Africa. The Dutch had begun placing trade post for slaves for many years, and had been living in South Africa for over