describe the process how British was out from India
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from ... Secretary of State, to describe the Government of India as "a despotism controlled from home".
Government: British Colonial Government
Capital: Calcutta; (1858–1911); New Delhi; (1911–1947); Simla (summer capital); ...
Religion: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, ...
Currency: Indian rupee
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As India celebrates 70 years of independence from the British, there is an alternative lens to view the history of the two nations. A history not solely defined by the Raj, but one that evolved during a period in the mid-eighteenth century before British rule became entrenched. I’d go so far to argue that to fully understand 1947, you have to understand how the British entered India in the 1770s.
Back then, when the future wasn't yet written, there was still a possibility of exchange between cultures. This exchange would not be available when racial stratification and ‘us’ versus ‘them’ polarities became the norm. It was a time of acceptance and rejection, when class, rather than skin colour was often the over-riding factor of difference.
Revisionist historians describe a more integrated culture in the south, particularly in Chennai (formerly Madras), where the European and Indian elites interacted in a lively ‘soiree’ culture. As David Washbrook puts it, "Long exposure to European ideas gave rise to many other forms of cross-cultural dialogue — which could be positively evaluated by Europeans themselves, even in the metropolis. Most remarkable here was the great Maratha court at Thanjavur."
As Dutch, French and English trading companies and merchants competed to outmanoeuvre one another, there was no certainty that Britain would succeed as the dominant power. Every time war broke out between the British and French in Europe, south India became the stage on which this rivalry was played out.
In 1776 Britain lost its American colonies and four years later, Tipu Sultan defeated the armies of the East India Company (EIC) in the Second Mysore War (1780–'84). In the words of Natasha Eaton, "There was no precedent for direct British rule over non-European peoples, nor were there modern examples of European government in Asia."
But there were some clear racially-motivated trends as colonial power shifted from commercial to political towards the end of the eighteenth-century. While a large Anglo-Indian (then known as Eurasian) community helped England to consolidate power in the early period, from 1786, Anglo-Indians were excluded from European social life and no longer classed as British subjects, but as ‘natives of India’. This was just one of several markers that indicated the death knell of eclectic cultural borrowing and exchange between the two nations.
One nineteenth-century Tamil text, the Sarva-Deva-Vilasa, trains a lens on the rich artistic life of Madras, its indigenous leaders and how both East and West mimicked each other.
It also coincided with the transition from the EIC as a small trading body to what would become the world’s first multi-national corporation. Already, John Company, as it was known, was starting to get a reputation for doing everything it could to maximise profits at the tragic expense of its subjects.
Jawaharlal Nehru, committed nationalist and the first prime minister of independent India (1889–1964), noted that around this time the Hindustani word ‘loot’ fell into British vernacular. While more well known for his ‘tryst of destiny’ speech in 1947, Nehru, in The Discovery of India, describes that the process the British would later call trade was in fact ‘plunder’ and that the ‘Pagoda Tree’ — or the tree of money — "was shaken again and again till the most terrible famines ravaged Bengal".
So, it’s clear that this pre-Raj period was far from halcyon — surely a nostalgic myth peddled by those in the entertainment industry — and yet it does offer another perspective. In particular, I would suggest, this time of exchange can be embodied in the little-known figure of the dubash — literally, translator — a unique Madrasi individual poised at the ‘intercrossing’ between cultures.
From the early 1700s, the dubashes moved from the peripheral farming areas of Madras and began to wield influence in the centre as members of the elite. They acted as the interpreter or broker between European Company men, private traders and native merchants, and their early role indicates that the interdependence between the Indian and British may have been on a firmer foundation than was commonly supposed.
While historical research into this subaltern figure is currently in its early stages, one nineteenth-century Tamil text, the Sarva-Deva-Vilasa, trains a lens on the rich artistic life of the city, its indigenous leaders — including several named dubashes — and how both East and West mimicked each other. Just as the English followed the dubashi trend of building garden houses in and around Madras, the dubashes constructed mansions and, imitating their colonial patrons, developed a taste for Western music and morning horse rides. In the text, it describes how the dubashes rode "with numerous hounds and accompanied by English ladies".