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Imperialism in India Throughout history, many nations have implemented
imperialism to enforce their will over others for money, protection and
civilization. India was no exception. Since its discovery, Europeans
were trying get a piece of India's action. In many cases England was the
imperial, or mother country. Since India was put under imperialism, a
great deal of things changed, some for the good, mostly though for the
bad. Between 1640 and 1949, India was ruled by two periods of
imperialism, both of which effected India in a very profound and permanent
manner. The first period of European control was between 1740 and 1858.
During this period the British East India Company controlled the Indian
sub-continent under the guise of economic imperialism, when in fact the
manipulation of Indian affairs was much more political than let on. When
it was founded in 1600 by Queen Elizabeth I, the East India Company's main
purpose was "to break into the Indonesian spice trade which was dominated
by the Dutch." But after colonizing a post a Madras in 1640, the company
was re-chartered to include such rights as coining money and act as
government to British subjects at the East India Company's posts...