February 12 Empire in India / migration
I. the "swing to the east" and the Second British Empire
II. India
-Mughal Empire
-East India Company
-Seven Years War (Bengal); nabobs
-"company-state"; sepoys
-ideologies of rule: orientalist vs. anglicist
-utilitarian liberalism
> Bentinck and Macaulay documents
III. migration
1815-1914: 22.6 million Britons emigrated
-push and pull factor
-assistance
--private (e.g. the Earl of Selkirk's Red River Colony)
--public
> Mill
Edmund Gibbon Wakefield
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the National Colonization Society
other destinations:
Wakefield
British North America
Cape Colony
Australian colonies
USA
