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Reply to BERGLUND KRISTINA’s refection
Thank you very much for your reflection, it provides me a broad idea and another perspective to understand the relationship between the environment and social change.Also help me to understand Gunnel’s book.
In your refection , For The British East India Company in India in 18th and 19th century, you think that the British did not in fact “arrival” of India in the name of the state, but only as a businessman seeking trade opportunities. To certain extent I agree with this view. But I think there is another fact we need to discuss. For the British colonial expansion plans in 18th and 19th century, the British wanted to extend their territory to the whole world, as a strategic India and China were not be treated as fragment part. from Geographically view, At that time India including today’s India, Pakistan , Bangladesh and other now bordering India several small countries in South Asia. the guardian of the Indian Ocean to the Pacific traffic arteries is forefront of British aggression in Southeast Asia . East India Company was not just play the role of trade, of course trade was important for Britain , but in Asia, in the name of a business rather than in the name of the nation, it much more easier to promote the United Kingdom was accepted by those strong traditions Asian dynasty accepted. In the name of commerce and trade , everything is simplified as business activiates, or in the name of “commercial activity”, and will not involve sensitive national sovereignty. However, this is just the British occupation strategy in Asia, the East India Company essentially was the way British colonial ruled in Asia. A fact couldn’t be ignore is, the British War is a war between China and the East India Company .Those British troops were from India , not from the United Kingdom.
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