What was the impact of imperialism and colonialism on India?
Colonialism is the practice of creating settlements in lands geographically distant from the parent land. Historically, this has often involved killing or subjugating the indigenous population. With the spread of Hellenic and Roman culture and technology by the Roman Empire, the Renaissance and the Englightenment of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, most of the world has at some point been colonised by a European country. The most notable colonial powers were Rome, Greece, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark, whose combined empires covered at various times the whole of North, Central and South America, Africa, Australia, much of Indonesia, the countries lying on the Eastern Mediterranean, much of the Indian subcontinent, and most of the countries lying in between. In short, most of the world. Imperialism is the domination of one people by another people. Imperialism is found in the
