How did the British Empire take over India as a colony?
The British used Famine as their means of control, The British India Holocaust or Late Victorian Holocaust is a genocide perpetrated by the British Empire 1876 – 1878 in British-ruled India and murdered at least 29 Million people by British Government state policy [1]. In 1876, at the time of a net surplus of rice and wheat in India, the British viceroy Lord Lytton caused an artificially created famine by insisting to continue exporting wheat to England even when peasants began to starve. The British government ordered to discourage relief works in every possible way [2]. Some Indians sought relief by hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was excluded. In these British Labour Camps, Indian workers received less food by the British than the inmates of a Nazi concentration camps[3]. The monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate (1877) of 94% [4]. In spite of the death of millions, the British government intentionally increased the self-mad
The original intent of the British in India was for the purposes of trade and to this end the British East India Company established a base in India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_… The present day (new East India Company of London) http://www.theeastindiacompany.com/ The British East India Company http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empi… British East India Company via Google – lots of links and history of the Company and etc.
