Question

what do you mean by colonial ?write a short note on colonial

Answer 1

Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.

Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent which was under the jurisdiction of European colonial powers, during the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices.[1][2] The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Only a few years later, near the end of the 15th century, Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gamabecame the first European to re-establish direct trade links with India since Roman times by being the first to arrive by circumnavigating Africa (c. 1497–1499). Having arrived in Calicut, which by then was one of the major trading ports of the eastern world,[3] he obtained permission to trade in the city from Saamoothiri Rajah.

Colonial India

Imperial entities of India

Dutch India1605–1825Danish India1620–1869French India1668–1954

Portuguese India
(1505–1961)

Casa da Índia1434–1833Portuguese East India Company1628–1633

British India
(1612–1947)

East India Company1612–1757Company rule in India1757–1858British Raj1858–1947British rule in Burma1824–1948Princely states1721–1949Partition of India

1947
Trading rivalries among the seafaring European powers brought other European powers to India. The Dutch Republic, England, France, and Denmark-Norway all established trading posts in India in the early 17th century. As the Mughal Empire disintegrated in the early 18th century, and then as the Maratha Empire became weakened after the third battle of Panipat, many relatively weak and unstable Indian states which emerged were increasingly open to manipulation by the Europeans, through dependent Indian rulers.

In the later 18th century Great Britain and France struggled for dominance, partly through proxy Indian rulers but also by direct military intervention. The defeat of the redoubtable Indian ruler Tipu Sultan in 1799 marginalised the French influence. This was followed by a rapid expansion of British power through the greater part of the Indian subcontinent in the early 19th century. By the middle of the century the British had already gained direct or indirect control over almost all of India. British India, consisting of the directly-ruled British presidencies and provinces, contained the most populous and valuable parts of the British Empire and thus became known as "the jewel in the British crown".

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Answer 2

Hey!! The process of ruling over a large area of land and separating them in colonies is called colonisation.there are many examples of colonisation such as British traders controlled over India and and made India their colony and there's a great a fact that Japan was only Asian country which made colonies in other countries.