Imperialism in India: An Evaluation
What were the positive and negative effects of imperialism for Great Britain
(the mother country) and for India (the colony)?
For research use:
* provided DBQ document packet
* lecture notes in your spiral-bound notebook
* textbook reading: Patterns of Interaction
(pg. 696, and chapter 27, section 4 pgs. 701-705)
* textbook reading: Modern Era (pages 49-62)
You need to analyze the effects of imperialism by identifying:
 1 positive or negative effect that imperialism had on the Indians
AND
 1 positive or negative effect that imperialism had on the British
Body Paragraph (at least 7 sentences):
a. Evaluate the positive or negative effects of British imperialism of India:
Topic Sentence
i. identify the effects in a general way, i.e., economic, political, or social.
zSSentence b. Describe how the effect impacted the British and the Indians:
i. Was it positive for the British? Negative?
ii.
Was it positive for the Indians? Negative?
Claim (1)
iii. Give background info to the effect. What did life look like before?
c. What 2 documents will be referenced in the paragraph to describe these effects?
Data (2)
i. Be sure to introduce the data/quote first so as to not make your writing
“choppy”
ii. If not quoting data directly, be sure to describe the data/document –
quote, picture, chart, excerpt, etc.
iii. Then, identify it with (). For example: (Document 2)
d. What impact did the effect have on Great Britain and the people of India?
Warrant (2)
i. How did this effect hurt or improve lives?
ii. This is where you analyze your data/evidence, i.e., This change
hurt/improved the British/Indians because….
I.