British India – Continental Europe relations

Continental Europe—British India relations

European Continent	British India

The British India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. As well as spices, jewels and textiles, India had a huge population. Soldiering was an honourable tradition within British India and the British capitalised on this. They regimented India's manpower as the backbone of their military power. The rise of Europe as well as in the convergence in incomes within the Atlantic economy in the late nineteenth century. Great Britain was at the apex of the world economy throughout most of the nineteenth century. The emergence of Britain as the apex economic and political power depended on her control over British India. This control of India then enabled Britain to pursue a set of policies that were of critical importance, both for the convergence in incomes within the Atlantic economy and the rise of Europe. The thesis advanced here can be viewed, depending on one’s prior position, as being either complementary to or alternative to the views of many of the protagonists of the divergence debate in the literature.

📰 Article(s) of the same category(ies)

• United Pakistan – Emirate of Bahrain (1971–2002) relations
• British India – British Mauritius relations
• British India – Kingdom of Yugoslavia relations
• National symbols of Czechoslovakia (1948–1990)
• National symbols of the Khuzestan Arab State
• United Pakistan
• Dominion of Pakistan – State of Japan relations

---