What made the British empire unique was they claimed that they ... What happened was India was deindustrialised. In 1750, seven years before British rule began, India accounted for almost a ...

The Industrial Revolution, which took place between 1750 - 1900, was a period of great ... These technological advances were happening while the British Empire was growing. Not all of these ...

The British empire, according to Oxfam ... in the world’s industrial output plummeting from a fourth of the pie in 1750 to just 2% by 1900. The British clearly owe a lot of their material ...