Asking this for my 5-year-old niece. I, myself am 21 years old, don’t know how exactly they did it and am exceptionally bad at Humanities.
I don’t quite understand how the Britishers convinced/bewitched/overruled the rulers of a nation. From what I understand, they struck deals and what-not. Can you please explain a **bird’s eye view** of the entire situation so that I can explain it to my niece?
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Largely, it’s building power through local rulers. The key word here is protectorate, where basically a ruler agrees to allow a foreign power a degree of domestic influence in exchange for military protection.
The image of colonialism as a group of European soldiers just conquering territory through nothing but military might is misleading. Diplomacy and evonomic influence played an arguably larger part.
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