Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: East India Company yakatungamirira kuwedzera kwoUmambo hweBritain muAsia. Mauto eKambani akanga atanga kubatana nemauto eRoyal Navy munguva yeHondo Yamakore Manomwe, uye vaviri vacho vakaramba vachishanda pamwe chete munzvimbo dziri kunze kweIndia: kudzingwa kwevaFrance kubva kuEgypt (1799), kubatwa kweJava kubva kuNetherlands (1811), kuwanikwa kwePenang Island (1786), Singapore (1819) uye Malacca (1824), uye kukundwa kweBurma (1826). Kubva pachigaro chayo muIndia, Kambani yakanga yave ichiita bhizimusi rekuwedzera mari yekutengesa opiamu kuChina kubvira kuma1730. Kutengeserana uku, uko kwakanga kusiri pamutemo sezvo kwakanga kwaparadzwa nehurumende yeQing muna 1729, kwakabatsira kugadzirisa kusaenzana kwezvokutengeserana kwakanga kwavapo nemhaka yokuunza tii kuBritain, uko kwaiita kuti sirivha yakawanda ibude muBritain ichienda kuChina. Muna 1839, kutorwa kwakaitwa mabhokisi 20 000 eopium nevakuru veChina muCanton kwakaita kuti Britain irwise China muHondo yeOpium Yokutanga, uye zvakaita kuti Britain itore chitsuwa cheHong Kong, panguva iyoyo yaiva nzvimbo duku yokugara. Mukupera kwezana remakore rechi18 uye kutanga kwezana remakore rechi19, Umambo hweBritain hwakatanga kutora basa guru zvikuru munyaya dzeKambani. Mitemo yeParamende yakatevedzana yakapfuudzwa, kubatanidza Mutemo Wokudzora wa1773, Mutemo waPitt weIndia wa1784 uye Mutemo weCharter wa1813 uyo waidzora nyaya dzeKambani uye wakasimbisa hutongi hweCrown pamusoro penzvimbo dzaakanga awana. Kuguma kwekambani kwakakurumidza nekumukira kweIndia muna 1857, kurwisana kwakanga kwatanga nekupanduka kwevarwi, mauto eIndia pasi pevakuru veBritain uye chirango. Kumukira kwacho kwakatora mwedzi mitanhatu kudzvinyirirwa, nokurasikirwa kukuru noupenyu kumativi ose ari maviri. Gore rakatevera racho hurumende yeBritain yakaparadza Kambani uye yakatora kutonga kwakananga kweIndia kuburikidza neHurumende yeIndia Mutemo wa1858, ichigadza British Raj, uko gavhuna-mukuru akagadzwa akatonga India uye Mambokadzi Victoria akagadzwa korona Empress weIndia. India yakava pfuma inokosha zvikurusa youmambo, "Jewel in the Crown", uye yakanga iri...  Mubvunzo: Makomisheni acho akatanga kushanda rini?
kutanga kwema1900