A Study On The Foreign Trade Of The India From The Middle Of The 19th Century To 1914

India was one of the areas where the British colonizers earlier started their colonial movement. From the middle of the nineteenth century, with the change of the rule and the economic intrusion of the British colonizers, the foreign trade in India showed new trait: India itself, as a direct target intraded by British and a transfer station for British trade to the East, had turned into an relative economic body with certain economic power, which had a considerable need for foreign trade. This thesis is primarily about the foreign trade of India from the middle of the nineteenth century to the World War I and the analysis on its shaping.The thesis includes four parts. In the first Chapter of the thesis we retrospect the foreign trade of India from the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, giving a clear narrative of the role of India in the triangle trade between England, India and China, which will provide a good comparison for the foreign trade of the India from the middle of the nineteenth century to 1914.The second chapter and the third are the most important part of the thesis. In the two chapters we discuss the new traits of the foreign trade of the India from the middle of the nineteenth century to 1914 from its foreign trade to British and China. The second chapter shows that, in the foreign trade to British, the amount of the export of the raw material kept rising for a long time, but the product kinds changed, which was an inevitable result of the colonial movement. At the same time, it reported that India was deeply involved into the world market. As to the import trade, though the industrial products still kept a high percentage in the import products from England, the structure and the price of the commodities had some changes, especially the import of the industrial raw material that attracts our attention. During this process, India has gradually broken away from the triangle trade frame and took an active to the international market competition. In the third chapter we analyze the trade between India and China,...