Lecture 4: experiences of colonialism

Question 1

the everyday violence of capitalism

Answer 1

colonialism explains some of the geographies of uneven development

british colonialism- helped form the third world

Question 2

1878 british india

Answer 2

english influence in the east is only another name for english tyranny

more than 5 million indian died of famine- 1899

19th century colonial agriculture in Bengal- the money which india takes out india- serious drain upon the country- among the causes of its poverty

Question 3

there was a disaster of planetary magnitude

Answer 3

droughts 1889-91

1896-1902- monsoon failure

31.7 million- 61.3 million people died of famine between 1876-1902

missing from conventional world history

could of been stopped?

Question 4

technology

Answer 4

steamships, rail network could of all helped

,million died not outside the modern world history but in the very process- of being forcibly incorporated

into its political and economic structures

Question 5

globalisation

Answer 5

colonial period- dependent on trade between regions

global process

beginning of globalisation

Question 6

changing political economy:local food security

Answer 6

high taxation

loss of land- land seizures- loss of access to common lands

removal of local feudal system

deteriorating terms of trade

price fluctuations

Question 7

loss of political control

Answer 7

tariffs

decided in london not in indian

so in englands interest not india’s

Question 8

food scarcity

Answer 8

hunger camps in china

scarcity causes an increase in commodity prices in capitalism

uneven power relations between global north and south

consequence of food crisis- un rest protests- export ban

overall- indian society - demolished

Question 9

reading- Davis 2004

Answer 9

famines are the war over the right of existence

empires- forced modernity- drastic decline in state capacity

british control over brazils foreign debt

curzon- tariffs decided in london not in india- englands interest