Since the introduction of ‘informal empire’ as a concept in Robinson and Gallagher’s article in 1953 entitled ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’, there was been a range of historiographical debate on its validity and usefulness when used to explain British expansion in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This essay acknowledges both sides of the argument, but will state that despite some historiographical debate on the contrary, the concept of ‘informal empire’ possesses more strengths than weaknesses
Mughal period started to become more unpopular. By the mid of the next century, the British had totally overpowered the Mughal ‘Shah-en-Shahs’. This period of transition can be further broken into two periods of transitions, the first one from the Mughal Empire to the regional states and the second from the regional states to the British colonies which are both described separately later in the essay. A society always maintains the notion of constant total power. If a society is controlled
English a big speaking language and how it compared to Indian movies In this essay, I am going to describe how English became such a big spoken language and how the English became a worldwide language. This essay will also include how the Bollywood movies have developed through the industry of Hollywood, and why India has the English as one of the International languages. English is the international language. Now 1,8 billion people in the world speak English. The most speaking language is Chinese
will give her funds, and a strong government will give her order and peace (Durant, 1935). While delivering his ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’ speech to the Royal Geographical Society a few decades earlier, Sir Halford Mackinder, the eminent British geographer, ended his famous article with a disturbing reference to
administrative group of the British Empire was build around the knowledge producing institutions like the British Museum, Royal geographic society, universities etc. This closeness helps to provide more data for the bureaucracy of the Empire. The data aided to implement their imperial control over the vast areas from their offices. The presence of administrative groups near to the knowledge producing centres assured the prohibition of interventions from other groups and also the British monopoly over these
Britishness, in addition to his British Reader’s expectations. Doyle integrates the plot of the story with a very significant historical event, the Indian Mutiny. The high percentage of the details, Doyle provides about the Mutiny, were inaccurate. It turns the facts into mythology. This is obvious in the way his characters, such as Small, in the novel describe the Mutiny and the mutineers negatively. In fact, there are many sequences and reasons that emerge such a usage. This essay will discuss and clarify
2008, the Chinese state has to maintain China’s place on the international scene, as well as dealing with popular nationalists claims. This casts doubts on the idea that nationalism is still an essential source of regime legitimacy today. In this essay, I will demonstrate that if the Chinese Communist Party benefits today from a certain legitimacy inherited from
colonies and as the World War I came to end, many or simply most of the colonies which due to their service to the Great Britain or due to the fact that they were in German control suddenly found themselves as free nations. So it is eminent that the British would lose more and more colonies during this time and because of that they would tighten
The Roman Empire is, without any doubt, considered to be one of the most profound and extensive political structure in the history. Just in 1,200 years Rome succeeded to develop from a small city with only the power over its neighbors to the first ancient superpower, dominating the Mediterranean world. On the other hand, the Empire was remarkable not only for its vast territory, but also for the noticeable influence the Roman culture had on the seized lands. At the early stages of its development
twentieth century, and his works continue to have a huge impact on American culture. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was born in Matihari, Bengal, India in 1903. According to Biography.com (2017), Orwell’s father was a British Civil Servant stationed in India at the time of Orwell’s birth. A year after being born, Orwell’s mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England where they settled in