What are the positive and negative impacts of imperialism on India?

Answer 1

Negatives:

• Imperialism drained India's wealth. The East India Company sold processed goods at a steep rate while buying materials at a low one, similar to the American Colonies. Wars with Britain, and between leaders instigated by Britain, took money. Prices of goods made in India which keep money in India were too high to compete with imported goods, expounded upon next.
• It destroyed India's previous economy and India's handicraft small scale industries. The traditional handmade cloth industry was felled by the manufactured cloth made in and imported from Britain. The cloth was much cheaper for it's quality and could be mass produced because it was made by machines. Many other handicrafts such as clock-making, carpentry, the metal industry, etc. were destroyed, again because of the superior and cheaper manufactured imports.
• India became dependent due to Imperialism. The destruction of the previous industries/businesses meant that nearly all processed goods were imported from Britain. As India was a protectorate it was made to only trade with Britain. Goods/materials not found in India were imported by Britain as it had done in order to "get it's foot in the door" prior to it's annexation of India. This was also done in Africa, Japan, Indonesia.... India basically became unable to support itself anymore because of European, mostly British of course, interference and trade.
• There was widespread famine. Britain encouraged/forced farmers to grow cash crops like tobacco on their farms instead of food. The booming population was unable to afford the amount of food that was grown and thus starved.

Positives:

• With the spread of imperialism and colonialism, foreign powers took an interest in India and thus introduced new means of transport and communication. Such as the telephone, What were the negative and positive effects of imperialism on India, improved roads, trains, expanded postal networks. These helped stimulate the economy, flow of knowledge and people. India is a rather large place after all, and prior to this were horses, carriages, carts, dirt trails, and letters delivered by travelers who used the tradition, slow methods.
• Modern What were the negative and positive effects of imperialism on India were also introduced. As in more advanced machines which manufactured goods, antibiotics, cars, guns, cheaper steel production, steam engines, electricity. Education was more open after India was imperialised because caste was somewhat less limited. People learned about bacteria, contagion, hygiene, crop rotation. Medicine, which was previously traditional, using herbs, prayers, smoke, etc., not to say that it was all bad or useless, became more regulated, effective, and preventative.
• Overall production increased. The population boomed due to better hygiene, medicine, and increased food supply. The food supply boomed because Britain encouraged traveling herders to settle down and farm land. Crop rotation made fields more fertile. The increased amount of farmers expanded into the rain forest, increasing arable land. As already mentioned though, many farmers grew cash crops, so the food produced, although more was produced per amount of land than before, was unable to feed the much larger population.
• India was made more equal. The Caste System was removed by Britain, opening doors to much of the populace. Women no longer had to commit sati, or throw themselves on the pyre, cremation fire, of their husband. Education, as said before, spread. And finally, people had somewhat more say in the government.
• Before the British came to India the many languages of India meant that people from different areas could not understand each other (like modern Europe!). Ever since the heyday of the British Empire educated people across the sub-continent (Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as India) have learned English from a very early age. This made it easier to organize against the British! It has also mean that India has been very well placed in the modern "knowledge economy", which by and large functions in English.

Imperialism of India had both pros and cons, it damaged India's culture, but introduced new things and removed some bad ones.

Answer 2

Negatives:

• Imperialism drained India's wealth. The East India Company sold processed goods at a steep rate while buying materials at a low one, similar to the American Colonies. Wars with Britain, and between leaders instigated by Britain, took money. Prices of goods made in India which keep money in India were too high to compete with imported goods, expounded upon next.
• It destroyed India's previous economy and India's handicraft small scale industries. The traditional handmade cloth industry was felled by the manufactured cloth made in and imported from Britain. The cloth was much cheaper for it's quality and could be mass produced because it was made by machines. Many other handicrafts such as clock-making, carpentry, the metal industry, etc. were destroyed, again because of the superior and cheaper manufactured imports.
• India became dependent due to imperialism. The destruction of the previous industries/businesses meant that nearly all processed goods were imported from Britain. As India was a protectorate it was made to only trade with Britain. Goods/materials not found in India were imported by Britain as it had done in order to "get it's foot in the door" prior to it's annexation of India. This was also done in Africa, Japan, Indonesia.... India basically became unable to support itself anymore because of European, mostly British of course, interference and trade.
• There was widespread famine. Britain encouraged/forced farmers to grow cash crops like tobacco on their farms instead of food. The booming population was unable to afford the amount of food that was grown and thus starved.

Positives:

• With the spread of imperialism and colonialism, foreign powers took an interest in India and thus introduced new means of transport and communication. Such as the telephone, What were the negative and positive effects of imperialism on India, improved roads, trains, expanded postal networks. These helped stimulate the economy, flow of knowledge and people. India is a rather large place after all, and prior to this were horses, carriages, carts, dirt trails, and letters delivered by travelers who used the tradition, slow methods.
• Modern What were the negative and positive effects of imperialism on India were also introduced. As in more advanced machines which manufactured goods, antibiotics, cars, guns, cheaper steel production, steam engines, electricity. Education was more open after India was imperialised because caste was somewhat less limited. People learned about bacteria, contagion, hygiene, crop rotation. Medicine, which was previously traditional, using herbs, prayers, smoke, etc., not to say that it was all bad or useless, became more regulated, effective, and preventative.
• Overall production increased. The population boomed due to better hygiene, medicine, and increased food supply. The food supply boomed because Britain encouraged traveling herders to settle down and farm land. Crop rotation made fields more fertile. The increased amount of farmers expanded into the rain forest, increasing arable land. As already mentioned though, many farmers grew cash crops, so the food produced, although more was produced per amount of land than before, was unable to feed the much larger population.
• India was made more equal. The Caste System was removed by Britain, opening doors to much of the populace. Women no longer had to commit sati, or throw themselves on the pyre, cremation fire, of their husband. Education, as said before, spread. And finally, people had somewhat more say in the government.
• Before the British came to India the many languages of India meant that people from different areas could not understand each other (like modern Europe!). Ever since the heyday of the British Empire educated people across the sub-continent (Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as India) have learned English from a very early age. This made it easier to organize against the British! It has also mean that India has been very well placed in the modern "knowledge economy", which by and large functions in English.

Imperialism of India had both pros and cons, it damaged India's culture, but introduced new things and removed some bad ones.