Imperialism+in+India

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  From the 16th to 20th centuries, various nations have ruled over the people of India. The nation usually associated with imperialism in India is Great Britain. It was not just the British, though, because the Portugese and the Dutch also controlled parts of India. during the time when Great Britian controlled India, it became a fashion to have things from the Orient. Curry and bamboo furniture were shipped over to Europe mostly by the English East India Company, who had a fifteen year monopoly of trading beyond the Cape of Good Hope in Britain. British rule in India ended in 1947, and the ex-British territories formed India and Pakistan. Hong Kong remained part of the British Empire until 1997!

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