Colonialism is the basis of the concept of mercantilism, which is an imperial idea that suggests that colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country.
One of the most important colonies in British Empire is of course India. There are also other colonies e.g. South Africa, America and Hong Kong.
Other countries that used to have colonies, is countries like India, South Africa, America and Egypt.
Britain gave up on India as a colony in 1947, because the Indian nationalism and Great Britain’s weakening in the wake on 2. World war, forced the Britons to decolonize India.
India consist of 29 federal state and 7 territories. The biggest state is Uttar Pradesh with 190.891.000 million citizens. The biggest territories are Delhi with 13.782.976 citizen.
The capital of India is New Delhi. New Delhi has been the capital of India since 1912. The population of New Delhi is 300.000, but if you include Delhi and the outer areas, the population is 12,8 million citizens.
India has 1.252 billion inhabitants in 2013. And India it’s very big. 42 % of people in India it’s very poor, they get 1.25 USD per day.
500 million people in India live In poverty.
The people of India, the end is rich or poor there is not something in the middle.
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