Introduction UK’s invasion of India had different kind of strategy than we saw in history books. It was not with guns or army but it was with power of wealth. The East India Company was founded by British merchants and traders to trade with India. The mostly traded goods were items like spices, tea and cloth at first. In addition to goods like that mentioned above, English traders mostly traded raw materials. These materials were then become finished goods in England then traded back to India with expensive prices. According to some history researchers, the government of England did not take control of India; it was the East India Company that took over India. England became masters of trade in the India region while using worldwide connections of their own to make themselves very rich. While making themselves very rich, they thought of getting a security for their company. Best idea would be using their wealth and power to have their own personal militias. British people were volunteered to be militias at first but later on, company hired local Indian people who worked for the British. The reason behind these locals working for British is that; they would get paid better and better opportunities than what they could get from locals. This applied for over hundred years. Obviously the British realized it was more profitable to run some parts of the country and government got more involved and decided to take over. British kept getting bigger in India, after a while, they started to control a few trade ports in the early 16th century and by the 17th century the subcontinent has been run by British. With years passing, British used their wealth to occupy more and more of India and trade connections. British controlled lots of land therefore they needed more protection for it. British also used divide and conquer strategy that has been used in history lots of times. They have done it by taking advantage of local competition to weaken opposition by playing with local leaders against one another. However British had to send their armies into India at times of resistance.

British has chosen long path but a stable one. It was a slow process. This process had more to do with British Company with trade and wealth than with British military. British never had attempted to go in to India with guns blazing, even though British had to use force sometimes, it was more of buying the place out with economic manipulation and also hiring local Indians for protection, to do their fighting for them. The East India Company East India Company was founded by British traders to trade with India. They made warehouses to store the goods they traded into India. British would keep armies and forces at these centers because they needed protection and it was a good excuse to have small but strong armies at the centers of the city. When the British traders were ordinary traders, they were just another buyer or a seller in the market. At the end of 17th century Industrial revolution was at its best in Europe. The manufacturing industry in Europe was thriving; there was a huge demand for raw materials. The price of raw materials and goods in India was extremely low and the English East India Company was making a lot of profits by buying the materials cheap and selling the finished goods expensive. Once they took control of India, the situation in India began to change quickly. British would now be able to control prices. The money that they obtained from taxes has not been spent on the welfare of the people of India but has spent on to increase their profits. Indian exporters couldn’t compete with British traders because export duties were fixed. They fixed the prices of goods where it was cheaper for people to buy goods imported by the British then to buy local Indian goods. They changed all the market to themselves. They had set up a one sided free trade. Fully failure of the local economy happened because of British, while the Indian economy was open to the world, they did not have the same access to foreign markets as British did, so that they had no markets to sell their products in either at home or foreign markets. Before all that, India was exporting all kinds of goods however that time all they have exported was poor raw materials.

As mentioned above, British bought the raw materials cheap and then they would send it to Britain where they made the finished goods. After that, these goods would be shipped back to India and sold at max profitable prices. These goods were much cheaper than the local goods. This was because the local goods were mostly handmade. On the other hand, British had machines that made British goods much cheaper to produce. The more land The Company gained the more India becomes dependent to the East India Company for their basic needs. As more power British had, they began to reorganize the agricultural system. As soon as they were in control of the land, they were able to control the farmers and peasants which crops they wanted them to make. British only cared about making more and more profits; they did not care much about the needs of Indian people. They were basically eating the country inside. After a while the condition of the people and the peasants were basically driven into poverty. British economic strategy was a unique one. It was different from other ones. For the first time, big amounts of wealth were being drained out of the Indian economy into that of a foreign country. Even though in the past, India experienced lots of foreign invasions none of them consistently drained the wealth of India for such a long time as the British did. There were Indian Kings who collected taxes and such but still they all spent the money within the Indian economy. The economic policy of British was to finish India. However according to British government, after the crown took over the control of India from the East India company, the economic looting of India reduced. In contrast to that, British tried to squeeze to the last drop of juice that was left in India. All the choices that have been made were for the British side and to improve the British industry and its economic status. British also spent a lot of money on investments such as railroads and communication facilities. These investments were done to improve the shipment of goods in the country. India became an important importer of goods under the British system. However the British made a lot of money from trade and also taxes where the money played an essential role for the British economy.

Conclusion There was an uprising against the East India company; this uprising was called the ” Indian Rebellion of 1857.” But it was not some small uprising; all the cults and rebellions were gathered together against the East India Company. Although the Company had gotten stronger over time, it was more than the company could handle. So the British Government stepped in when it became clear that the East India Company could not handle the situation anymore. Crown won the conflict between Indians and the East India Company with the help of local Indians who were very loyal to the British and established India as a part of the Empire since the Company alone could no longer handle the situation. The reason the British won the conflict was that they had better technology and military organization however main reason was that; being the masters of wealth and trade in India. Although Britain happened to manage this mutiny; with Gandhi's campaign for Indian’s freedom, British government could not resist no more. Gandhi’s campaign took its place on the British government, who struggled to keep the control until up to Indian independence in 1947.

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