Impact of Scots in India Flashcards
Economy and Enterprise
Tommy Lipton and James Taylor, staffed business exporting tea
Scot’s involved in jute too. Grown in India.
Dundee became centre for Jute production in the world. Lots of Scots migrate to India to establish industry
1 million sandbags made by jute in India during WW1
Scots took tea to India.
Steel, iron used to make railways for trains. Railway engines in India built in spring burn in Glasgow.
James Taylor found led first tea plantation
Culture and Religion
General James Dalhousie built railways, introduced post services, built roads and schools.
He abolished Hindu customs like suttee and thuggee.
Scottish churches. English speaking schools set up. Church helped improve woman’s rights in a India and education helped equal role in women.
Scot’s improved education, by Presbyterian influence.
Scot’s developed banking into modern cash economy
Native societies
Dalhousie introduced Doctrine of Lapse, if no heir, land went to British East India Company. Revolt occurred involving local soldiers and general population. British Empire sent military. Many Scottish regiments took part.
During British reign, India experienced some of the worst famines every recorded. Famine happened because of British policy: most rural workers paid in food or produce so when crops failed there was food shortage and workers lacked means to buy food. Colonial rulers did not suffer and continued to export despite famine.
Colonial rule led to development of vaccines for smallpox and cholera and lots of other medical advancements
British rule modernised industry, education, healthcare, transport but was not always positive.
