What was the legacy of the British rule?

Answer 1

The short answers is that after the British ended the era of Colonialism, what was left behind was their culture, much like that of France or Spain. In India, Crocket is played, high tea at 4pm (1600hrs) each day is observed, the uniforms are roughly the same, and of course, the Queens English is spoken and written (labour, etc,) even though that Country has its autonomy, the cultural affectations of its history under British Colonialism has had a great impact in everyday occurrences in the life of the 'normal' Indian from so many years of English Rule. The same of course is said for why Brazilians (from the Slave Trade days) speak not the Spanish like their Latin neighbors (as they were colonized by Spain and used as a place to sell slaves as well) in Latin America, but Portugese, Brazilian Portugese, as in the States, American English is spoken by the majority of Unites States Citizens and while there is no official language for The States like there is in Canada (English and French)...by a default, American English is an unofficial language since everything is first printed in it (other languages are also written and spoken at certain places though it is an afterthought--there aren't any stop signs in written Cantonese or Oglala Lakota...if you don't speak and read American English, life is quite difficult.

British Rule has had a direct influence on these languages, what is spoken and where it is, these languages have a history and that comes from the Colonialism from the Brittish Empire in America during the 1600s, which is why were one to look at the majority of the languages spoken, in the East Coast (the first British Colonies), English is spoken, while in Louisiana, first 'settled' by the French, still has people speaking french and the Cajuns who speak its French Cajun derivative. Only after the loss of the French and indian War and the Louisiana Purchase--bankrolled by England's oldest bank did the territory become part of the Colonial America.

Though in that war it was mainly French Troops with Native Tribes aligned with them while they fought the British and the tribes that had aligned with the British and after the French lost that 'war' the Huron and Delaware also 'lost' as they had aligned themselves with the French, treaties with a defeated Nation aren't honored. Militarily, the tactics that helped win the war for Independence against British Rule, along with the 'second stab' of the British from the War of 1812 where the Brits burned down the White House (which is why they paint it white from the black burn marks) certain units in the regular army and miltias used Native America fighting tactics to close with the enemy and kill him--the same that we do today in the Infantry...such as Snipers (the word comes from being able to hit the wings off of a Snipe--a small bird--from a long distance), attacking while NOT in the open but ambushing, using covering Sniper fire (a force multiplier) while the skirmishers fought up close, even using tomahawks and guns attacking the British not on a flat field to face each other with loud commands but hit and run tactics in the bush. The precursors of today's US Army Rangers, the British Colonialist Unit--Roger's Rangers--in his famous list of what to do, shows the Legacy of British Rule (reprinted in each Ranger Manual from Ranger Training Brigade) that one of the Rules holds to never sleep past daybreak 'as that is when the French and Indians attack'. Of course the States in the East Coast come from the lines of the British Colonies...under British Rule and each Colony (State) having a Governor, an aristocratic Englishman. The war is over, but the lines stayed the same. Under the British Rule, the treaties signed and then by the Unites States Government were not honored and how does that affect your life? You ever drive though the states, you are seeing what was drawn up on where to 'put' the various Nations and Tribes of the AmerIndians. Such as South Dakota, where the US Govt. gave that as a Reservation to the Sioux--the Oglala Tribe and Sicangu or Brule Tribe but so many settlers kept going through it that they split the land on the settlers' trail and made two Reservations at the ends of the State--one in the same place called Rosebud where most of the Sicangu stayed while in the other called Pine Ridge 'most' of the Oglala Lakota walked over to (across the state) to live and still do.

While in California and the States that border Mexico, Spain at one time held most parts of them, disregarding the indigenous peoples and languages, creating the Mexican Dialect of Spanish that is spoken today, and spoken in those places prolifically today in California Arizona, etc., each language spoken where the descendants from the cultures of the 1550 to 1600s have lived all the way to today.

Not only language and culture were stamped on these places that were under British Rule--the UKs economic practices set forth by Adam Smith (a Scot, though he was still under UK Rule as is Scotland still today), where land is a commodity something that some cultures have no recognition of--the Amerindian, regardless or Nation or Tribe, laughed at the Washuchus (it's a Lakota word for the Anglos) for thinking you could trade or 'buy' the earth, then when the buffalo came back that way, they discovered both stone and mortar forts along with cannon. Even the tomahawk and horse were not in North America until the English, Spanish, and French came. Before they hunted on foot with longer six foot bows but on horseback, that isn't feasible, changing inadvertently the bow and with smelted metal (something the Indian Nations and Tribes and Camps didn't have before) got metal spear heads and arrowheads, along with the tomahawk which came from the French small axe or hachette (becoming our hatchet of today) because of the trade outposts for trappers, mountain men, and treated poorly, the Native Americans that frequented them. Their is no word for war in Lakota, the word is translated as battle, but the warclub was used as a club with a river stone usually attached by sinew on the top until the British and French came and steel came and of course rifles. After the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 2000 different shells were found--that many different types of guns were used when Custer fought the Sioux and lost.

From British Rule, though from the French, "Sioux" isn't even the proper word, although it has been adopted, it was a corruption of an Ojibwa word used by the French meaning snakes, but being called Sioux all the time, the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota, Teton Indians, just adopted the name and became the Sioux Nation...though within the Sioux Nation there still is the three divisions--Lakota, Nakota, Dakota, with each having a different dialect of language (Dakota and Lakota sound almost nothing alike, much like Eastern Arabic (spoken in Iraq, Iran, Syria) Western (spoken in Egypt) Arabic and of course the Standard Arabic spoken for the Qu'ran and a lot of newspapers. British Rule changed the concepts of ownership for an entire indigenous people, economic style, the value of what is valuable as opposed to what is not valuable, a King versus a small Council of Chiefs, the Elders of each Tribe under which they lumped the largest Oyate (Oglala Lakota for People) into The Sioux Nation.

Under British Rule, speaking of after War World II, the British Rule came to the toppled Persian Ottoman Empire which became lines on a map slit up by the British and the French into the Nations of Trans-Jordan--which became just known as Jordan--Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates--not even thinking about the Tourag nomadic people that are not ethnically descended from the Arabians, as they are descended from the Berbers and not the Tartars. The British Rule came after defeating the Mufti and Turks who had aligned themselves with Hitler's Third Reich Germany, which is where the Brotherhood comes from by lineage.

And of course the British Rule extended into the UN mandated newly-created haven State called Israel, after the atrocities committed by the Nazi-Ruled Reich, an entire People now displaced who couldn't really go back to their Nazi-seized homes and once-Nazi neighbors, Roosevelt Avenue 10 the notion of allowing asylum for the Jews in Alaska however the British didn't want to do the French want to use in the American in Congress to know that and so in 1949, the mandate was created though they would like Ireland or Scotland be ruled by the British until the British found it better to leave these people to their own governance, leaving the people up to their own devices. However, the Sabras (native born Israeli's) show the names of their heritage of being descended from Jewish Germans, Belgians, Polish, etc., by their surnames such as Greenberg, from of the people fortunate to have survived and moved to the haven of Israel, being Jewish the only requirement for citizenship in the Jewish State. From the roots of British Rule, as well, comes the Jewish Palestinian names from the once-territory of Palestine, renamed Israel in '49 and while a common form of Hebrew is spoken, and some Yiddish depending on where a person was from, English is the second language primarily spoken, along with various tactics and stratagem learned from the British Army used by the Israeli Army--British Rule is even evident before the creation of Israel by the United Nations, earlier during WWII when the Palestinian British Jewish Brigade was formed by the British for the Jews in Palestine to fight the Nazis. The Brits, of course were only compelled to leave only after years of a campaign to end their Rule their by "The Haganah" to which each person or at least the majority of the Haganah then had formed the Knesset, the Israeli Parlament for the Jewish State, which has endured to this day despite being wars, constant battles, being surrounded on all land sides by what one would loosely term as the enemy. Even though thousands of Palestinians go into israel to work each day and a tax to help the Palestinians is collected and given to them to improve their conditions (although since the Palestinians have selected a Terrorist Group to lead them, I do not know of that tax's current standing).

In Ireland, the IRA and Shin Fein, fought the British for autonomy since the 1920s under Michael Collins (though there were several others that founded the Irish Republican Army, he was the most charismatic) and the war came to a head in the 1990s, British Colonialism is a hard thing to reverse, much like France's war to keep Algeria and Indo-China--now Vietnam. Still in Vietnam, people speak French as they do in most of Africa.

I hope this has helped.