Positive Impacts of British Rule on Indigenous People 1890-1914

Question 1

What did the 1892 Indian Councils’ Act do?

Answer 1

Increased the number of Indians on the Provincial Legislative Councils

Question 2

What was a positive impact of British rule in India agriculturally?

Answer 2

Brought in an irrigation programme that made 8x more land available for farming

Question 3

What was a positive impact of British rule in India socially?

Answer 3

Public health and life expectancy increased due to improved water supplies and quinine treatment against malaria

Question 4

What was a positive impact of British rule in India for education?

Answer 4

Calcutta Uni biggest in world by 1900

Question 5

How did the Morely Minto reforms in 1909 benefit Indians?

Answer 5

• Elected membership of all councils was 135 from 39 in 1892
• 60 Indian reps to serve on VR’s Imperial Legislative Council
• Elections in provincial councils
• Separate representation for Muslims and Hindus

Question 6

When did Hardinge reunify Bengal?

Answer 6

1911 - this pleased Hindus and please Muslims, he moved the capital from Calcutta to Delhi

Question 7

What was a positive impact of British rule in Egypt financially by 1907?

Answer 7

After Cromer, Egypt was better irrigated, more fairly taxed

Question 8

What was a positive impact of British rule in Egypt agriculturally?

Answer 8

Aswan Dam in 1902 made half a million acres of desert arable

Question 9

What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan economically?

Answer 9

Economic development in Nile Valley after occupation in 1898

Port Sudan opened 1906

Question 10

What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan infra structurally?

Answer 10

Extended telegraph and railway lines to link areas in Northern Sudan

Question 11

What was a positive impact of British rule in the Sudan agriculturally?

Answer 11

1911 Gezira scheme improved irrigation systems

Question 12

What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa economically?

Answer 12

1908 WA gin trade worth £1.2 million

Question 13

What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa morally?

Answer 13

January 1897: Goldie launched humanitarian war against slave trading

Question 14

What was a positive impact of British rule in West Africa administratively?

Answer 14

Lugard’s indirect rule = traditional laws maintained and enforced by native courts with local police forces = road to independence

Question 15

What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa morally?

Answer 15

Having assumed control, British ensured Arab slave trade did not return

Question 16

What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa infra structurally?

Answer 16

1896 construction of Ugandan railway improved transport and communications

Question 17

What was a positive impact of British rule in East Africa economically (acts)?

Answer 17

Colonial Loans and Colonial Stocks Acts of 1899 and 1900 allowed infrastructural projects e.g. rail links into Africa’s interior from ports

Question 18

What was a positive impact of British rule in South Africa educationally?

Answer 18

Milner founded a series of English-speaking “Milner-schools” in Pretoria and Johannesburg