Imperial Expansion to 1815

• West Indies
• Canada
• Bengal
• Australia & New Zealand
• Cape Colony (South Africa)
• Ceylon

India and the European Balance of Power

Crimean War

Lord Palmerston

• Foreign Secretary, 1830-1841, 1846-1851
• Home Secretary 1852-1855
• Prime Minister 1855~1865

Britain's Interests

• Freedom of the Seas
• Anti-Slavery
  • Slave Trade
  • Colonization: Niger Expedition of 1841
• Balance of Power
  • No "entangling alliances"

Richard Cobden

• Non-intervention
• Free Trade

Revolutions of 1848

Don Pacifico 1850

1851: Out of Office

Crimean War

• Balance of Power in Middle East
• Russophobia in popular press
• 1854 Russian attack on Turkey

Purchase of Military Commissions

Times of London and telegraph

The Charge of the Light Brigade

• Lord Cardigan
• Lord Raglan
• Ronald

India and the Mutiny of 1857

East India Company

• Orientalism

Sir William Jones

• Second and Third Anniversary Discourses Delivered to the Asiatic Society of Bengal ,1785 and 1786.
• Indo-European languages
• Sanskrit
• Golden Age/decline

Evangelicalism

• William Carey
• An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen 1792
• Vernacular (for scripture)
• Bengali
• Movable type

Missionary Movement

• Hook swinging
• Juggernaut
• Thuggee
• Sati
• Infanticide

Anglicizers

• T. B. Macaulay
• Minute on Indian Education 1835

Revolt of 1857

• Sepoys
• Meerut
• Mughal Emperor
• Kanpur
• Lucknow
• Delhi
• Revenge
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What were the issues at stake in the disagreements between Palmerston and Cobden over Britain's role in the world?

How did the public image of India help justify British rule there?