Compare and contrast the roles of native populations in the growth of British and Dutch power in India and the East Indies
What will be an ideal response?
A. Native populations in British India
1. made up of diverse cultures, religions, political systems, and ethnic
identities
2. tax burdens provoked frequent peasant rebellions
3. easier for Indians to accept a foreign conqueror than one from inside the
empire
4. Bengal was full of internal dissent
a. Hindu resentment of Muslim rule, warlord rivalry with the Nawab,
resentment of heavy taxation, military unrest at overdue pay
5. helped British by forming a coalition of Indian clients and mercenaries to
defeat the only regional powers capable of reversing the trend towards
British dominance
6. Britain's Indian Empire was at once the last of the old adventurer
conquests, achieved with native collaborations
B. Native populations in Dutch East Indies
1. native populations did not like Dutch occupation
a. accused the puppet rulers of being "the devil's kings"
b. Dutch were a decisive force in Java
2. devastated rivals' lands, uprooted surplus crops, and destroyed
competitors' ships, they ran the risk of ruining the entire region
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What will be an ideal response?
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