Positive Impacts of British Rule on Indigenous People 1890-1914 Flashcards
What did the 1892 Indian Councils’ Act do?
Increased the number of Indians on the Provincial Legislative Councils
What was a positive impact of British rule in India agriculturally?
Brought in an irrigation programme that made 8x more land available for farming
What was a positive impact of British rule in India socially?
Public health and life expectancy increased due to improved water supplies and quinine treatment against malaria
What was a positive impact of British rule in India for education?
Calcutta Uni biggest in world by 1900
How did the Morely Minto reforms in 1909 benefit Indians?
- Elected membership of all councils was 135 from 39 in 1892
- 60 Indian reps to serve on VR’s Imperial Legislative Council
- Elections in provincial councils
- Separate representation for Muslims and Hindus
When did Hardinge reunify Bengal?
1911 - this pleased Hindus and please Muslims, he moved the capital from Calcutta to Delhi
What was a positive impact of British rule in Egypt financially by 1907?
After Cromer, Egypt was better irrigated, more fairly taxed
What was a positive impact of British rule in Egypt agriculturally?
Aswan Dam in 1902 made half a million acres of desert arable
What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan economically?
Economic development in Nile Valley after occupation in 1898
Port Sudan opened 1906
What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan infra structurally?
Extended telegraph and railway lines to link areas in Northern Sudan
What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan agriculturally?
1911 Gezira scheme improved irrigation systems
What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa economically?
1908 WA gin trade worth £1.2 million
What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa morally?
January 1897: Goldie launched humanitarian war against slave trading
What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa administratively?
Lugard’s indirect rule = traditional laws maintained and enforced by native courts with local police forces = road to independence
What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa morally?
Having assumed control, British ensured Arab slave trade did not return
What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa infra structurally?
1896 construction of Ugandan railway improved transport and communications
What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa economically (acts)?
Colonial Loans and Colonial Stocks Acts of 1899 and 1900 allowed infrastructural projects e.g. rail links into Africa’s interior from ports
What was a positive impact of British rule in South Africa educationally?
Milner founded a series of English-speaking “Milner-schools” in Pretoria and Johannesburg
