Page 4 - Lessonnote_Structural Change

• People were carted in ships from India to work on other colonised
lands in distant Asia, Africa and Americas.

• Many died on their way. Most could never return. Today many of

their descendents are known as people of Indian origin.

• To facilitate the smooth functioning of its rule, colonialism
introduced a wide array of changes in every sphere, be it legal or
cultural or architectural.

• Colonialism was a story apart in the very scale and intensity of the
changes that it brought about. Some of these changes were
deliberate while some took place in an unintended fashion.

• For example we saw how western education was introduced to
create Indians who would manage British colonialism. Instead it

led to the growth of a nationalist and anti-colonial consciousness.

Capitalism

• Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of
production are privately owned and organised to accumulate

profits within a market system.

• Capitalism in the west emerged out of a complex process of
European exploration of the rest of the world, its plunder of
wealth and resources, an unprecedented growth of science and
technology, it’s harnessing to industries and agriculture.

• Capitalism has global nature with its dynamism, its potential to

grow, expand, innovate and use technology and labour in a way
that best assured to ensure greatest profit.

• Western colonialism was inextricably connected to the growth of
western capitalism that became the dominant economic system.

• If capitalism became the dominant economic system, nation
states became the dominant political form. That we all live in

nation states and that we all have a nationality or a national